Tag: Religion
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Good Friday: the death of gods and living with AI
As you’ll perhaps have picked up from reading the book (grab a signed copy here), or hearing me speak about it at recent launch events, the title ‘God-like’ comes from an article written by the UK government’s AI safety lead who urged for ‘a pause in the race to god-like AI’ in an article for…
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The Moon is the Beginning of all Religion…
‘I looked and looked but I didn’t see God.’ – Yuri Gagarin ‘That transcendentalism by which all men live has primarily much the position of the sun in the sky. We are conscious of it as of a kind of splendid confusion; it is something both shining and shapeless, at once a blaze and a…
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‘The Greatest Trick…’ Crucifixion as Misdirection | Religion as Illusion [3]
Religion as Illusion [ 1 ] | Religion as Illusion [ 2 ] I watched The Prestige again last night, and was even more impressed by it second time around – it really is a magnificent film, and, for me, more interesting than Nolan’s next work Inception. Some of the reaction to this mini-series of…
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Religion for Atheists | Atheism for the Religious…
I’ve not yet read the full book that Alain de Botton has been promoting recently, but I’ve read a number of interviews and heard him speak, and browsed his website: religionforatheists.com and I wanted to post a couple of first-thoughts about his thesis. Firstly, he’s being unashamed to say that he is ‘picking and mixing’…
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Dinner with Dallas | Can the Poor and Powerless Have Knowledge?
Was kindly invited by my publishers to have dinner with Dallas Willard last night with a few others. Dallas has a new book out called Personal Religion, Public Reality?: Towards a Knowledge of Faith which he talked a little about, leading to a very interesting roundtable discussion about what exactly knowledge was or could be.…
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Is Religion Any More Than a Jedi Mind-Trick?
Great story circulating at the moment about one Chris Jarvis ‘the Southend Jedi knight who refused to dehood in his jobcentre and has now received an apology from the manager for the lack of respect given to his “religion or beliefs”.‘ Jarvis says: “I am a Star Wars follower. It means following the Way of…