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.
ims to present the Baha'i Houses of Worship (or temples) as places where members of all religions are welcome, as a form of human flourishing. While the latter is true, other than 2 images, the AI generated Baha'i temples don't look like any of the existing ones. The video also aims to represent the ethic of human unity in diversity that is central to the Baha'i Faith - while there's only so much that can be captured in a 1:13 minute video, mentioning only Buddhists, Christians & Muslims is problematic (some of the comments on Facebook show this). I'm nominating this as an example of an AI work that has good intentions, but creates an incomplete & even inaccurate & potentially contentious picture of the subject of religious flourishing. Perhaps addressing its problems can advance discourse & understanding of human religious flourishing in the age of AI.
