During the Lenten season, the Catholic Church echoes the call of the Lord Jesus for us to accompany him in the desert. The desert is an uncomfortable place. It strips us of our excesses. It humbles us ...

It’s always good to define our terms. In his Modern Catholic Dictionary, Servant of God John Hardon provided a good definition of “Examination of Conscience”: Reflection in God’s presence on one’s ...

In June 2022, a Google engineer named Blake Lemoine became convinced that the AI program he’d been working on—LaMDA—had developed not only intelligence but also consciousness. LaMDA is an example of a ...

Chats with AI bots have convinced evolutionary biologist but most experts say he is being misled by mimicry ...

What if your conscious experiences were not just the chatter of neurons, but were connected to the hum of the universe? In a paper published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, I present new evidence ...

Everyone knows AIs are dangerous. Everyone knows they can rattle off breakthroughs in wildlife tracking and protein folding before lunch, put half the workforce out of a job by supper, and fake enough ...