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// ai, consciousness and the soul

Signal in the Noise

Image of God or golem? Resurrection or upload? Every serious argument about AI is an old argument in new clothes. This thread goes back to the old versions, because they already thought about how the story ends.

Essays

  • Two Promises of Eternal LifeSilicon Valley and Christianity both promise eternal life. One says become data. The other says data was never all you were. A plain comparison of mind uploading and bodily resurrection.
  • The Golem: Humanity's First AI Safety StoryA rabbi, some clay, and one word written on its forehead. Erase one letter and truth becomes death. What the golem legend says about building things that act on our words.
  • If an AI Says It Is Conscious, What Would the Church Say?Theology has categories for this that tech does not. Image of God, breath of life, and why passing every test would still leave the question open. A clear look at AI, souls and consciousness.
  • The Tower of Babel Was an Alignment FailureOne language, total coordination, and a line about nothing being impossible for them. Why Genesis 11 reads like the alignment problem, and what kind of intervention it describes.

Book guides

  • The Best Books on AI and FaithWhat does a soul mean if a machine can think? Five books for anyone who uses AI daily and quietly wonders about it, starting with the one we recommend to everybody.

From Signal