Sublime

Against all the religious vitriol curiosity had sustained, Francis Bacon, onetime lord chancellor of England and staunch proponent of empiricism, defends it, characterizing it as absolutely “natural” and in fact “useful” when tasked with building knowledge in the service of humankind.

In the end, transhumanism is merely another attempt to argue that humans are nothing more than computation, that the soul is already so illusory that it will not be missed if it doesn’t survive the leap into the great digital beyond.

To discover truth, it is necessary to work within the metaphors of our own time, which are for the most part technological. Today artificial intelligence and information technologies have absorbed many of the questions that were once taken up by theologians and philosophers: the mind’s relationship to the body, the question of free will, the possib

“Then you think there is no God?” “No, I think there quite probably is one.” “Then why? . . .” Mustapha Mond checked him. “But he manifests himself in different ways to different men. In premodern times he manifested himself as the being that’s described in these books. Now . . .” “How does he manifest himself now?” asked the Savage. “Well, he mani