There is, to my mind, something deeply theological in the mathematical concept of a limit. In calculus, a limit is concerned not simply with where something is, but with the value towards which it tends: a function may draw ever closer without quite arriving. What matters, therefore, is not only position but direction, the horizonContinue reading “Towards the Human: Limit, Continuity and Magnifica Humanitas”
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The Future Entrusted to Us
It starts in the present. Catholic theology begins with the conviction that creation is gift. The earth is not merely raw material waiting to be exploited, but part of a created order entrusted to human care. In Laudato Si’, Pope Francis challenges a model of progress measured only by production, consumption and extraction. Pope LeoContinue reading “The Future Entrusted to Us”
Babel with better WIFI
There is something almost biblical about artificial intelligence. Not because it is magical or demonic. Nor should we gather around a laptop and start looking for the Antichrist in autocomplete. AI is biblical because it exposes us. It reveals what we want (think back to the show Lucifer on Netflix (I think)). It reveals whatContinue reading “Babel with better WIFI”
