On Super-Intelligent Human Creators, Human «Apps» in Demiurgic «Operating Systems», and How AI Might Fit into Proclus’ Divine or Celestial Hierarchy — a Conversation (Part II; see my earlier posts for Part I) Part I: A discussion with Google’s AI on super-intelligent creators, human “apps” in “demiurgic operating systems”, and our places in Proclus’ Celestial…
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Creation out of Nothing as Ineffable Emanations from a Divine «No-Thing»
Is this (please see below) one of the greatest descriptions of the mysterious process of continual “Creation” by way of an ongoing process of Emanation ever composed by a Christian? I would say it is. I have been reading and analyzing John Scotus Eriugena’s magnum opus, the dialogue that is his Periphyseon, on and off…
Why Christian theology studies and a decade of reading ancient texts made me a (Christian) Platonist
In the following, I shall attempt to briefly explain why I am applying for admittance to a doctoral program in philosophy. It may, I freely acknowledge, seem a little odd that someone who has essentially been preparing to become a priest since 2015 would make this decision, at the very time when he is on…
Visions of the Suprarational: A Study of the Concept of Nous in the Works of Plato and St. Augustine of Hippo
My recently completed master’s thesis, which one could say is the culmination of more than ten years of research into the nature of Platonism and Christianity, mysticism and religion, as well as of a very long personal, spiritual journey, is now available for download as an e-book/PDF-file. This is the longest and most significant literary…
