The Biblical story of the Art (a floating, zoo-like device, constructed to survive climate turmoil and mass extinction) can be regarded as an archetypal image (in the terminology of Gaston Bachelard), capturing structural components of the human-animal relationship. Building on the contributions by Larson and Barr, Keulartz, Bovenkerk and Verweij, and Ramp and Bekoff, I will argue that, in the ...

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If machines could one day acquire superhuman intelligence, what role would still be left for humans to play in the world? The ‘midwife proposal,’ coming from futurists like Ray Kurzweil or James Lovelock, sees invention of AI as a fulfillment humanity’s cosmic destiny. universe ‘strives’ saturated with and our cyborg descendants are much better equipped advance this goal. By creating AI, their ...

pierre teilhard de chardin, as he is more commonly known, was a jesuit priest who died in 1955, having worked for some twenty years as a paleontologist in china. while being a renowned scientist, who assisted in the finding of the peking man fossil, teilhard’s main desire and scholastic efforts were to reshape modern christian theology in the light of contemporary science, especially in his own...