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 possibility of immortality,” O’Gieblyn writes. “These are old problems, and although they now appear in different guises and go by different names, they persist in conversations about digital technologies much like those dead metaphors that still lurk in the syntax of contemporary speech. All the eternal questions have become engineering problems. ** Some physicists have suggested that the cosmos is one entangled system, meaning it is not made up of individual systems but is itself an irreducible … Continue reading God, Human, Animal, Machine (Meghan O’Gieblyn)