Freud provides a roadmap for a sensible and logical approach to that most human of activities: dreaming. This book isn't important for the People's Canon in that it tells us how to correctly interpret dreams. Instead, it shows us how psychoanalysis sought out methods for translating the numinous into legible data archives located within individual consciousness. In this way, Freud exemplifies the drive toward explaining the ineffable in as close to material and individual terms as possible that formulates the ideological underpinnings of AI's rhetoric.
Estes is one of the few theologians with optimism for AI. This book emphasizes how technologically enhancements can benefit even the church. This work was recently cited in an article in The Atlantic for pioneering engagement among evangelicals.
Estes is one of the few theologians who has a positive take on the ability of AI to increase human flourishing. Some positive voices are needed for your canon also.
This book-length essay comes at AI technology through a compelling examination of the author's own history of faith, crisis of faith, and her ongoing project to understand the human in relation to the three other positions in her title. It's a remarkably clear-headed appreciation of our cultural moment, free of both hype and moral panic.
The text shows what has been lost: The assumption written words are of human origin. Yet it also shows how this might be a chance to return to a reading without regard to origin.
Several chapters focus on how humans understand AI, and how AI affects the way we read and interpret the Bible. The rest of the chapters address AI and the changes coming to promote the Bible in thousands of new languages.
A scheme for human progress based on science and planetary management — was the basis for a club founded by Gerald Heard and Aldous Huxley, who later spoke of “human potentialities”
Hart's "All Things are Full of Gods" addresses the nature of soul, consciousness, and the human as being participating in Being. The book is structured as a socratic dialogue between the gods Eros, Hermes, Psyche, and Hephaestus. Across multiple days they debate the naturalistic-mechanistic view of the world, exhausting all of its philosophical ramifications — and finding again and again the elusive consciousness and being that elude capture in their grip. Relevant to the subject at hand, Hart devotes sizeable portions of his text to an investigation of how we come to conceptualize ourselves as the machines we create, in the process losing sight of what ultimately and definitively distinguishes us from them.
