A.I. and the Uncontrollability of the World

Catholic Stuff You Should Know

J. 10 Initiative

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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The first of Father John’s fall series on A.I., Father Jacob and he take up the question from the perspective of the uncontrollability of the world. Unpacking the thought of Harmut Rosa and bringing Von Balthasar to bear, they seek to understand the contours of “resonance,” in place of the illusion of an engineered reality.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Catholic Stuff You Should Know, a J-10 initiative.
0:11.0	Hey, welcome to the podcast. Father John here with Father Jacob Machado, fresh out of Glenwood Springs. Welcome, buddy.
0:21.1	Fresh out of Glenwood Springs. I was driving back from the office just now, and we've got our
0:25.2	afternoon traffic. We get about two hours of it on Grand Avenue. I was getting a little annoyed
0:30.1	because I was late getting over here to set up, and then I realized traffic, it added like two minutes
0:35.7	to my drive, three minutes maybe it's like oh it's
0:38.6	good to be out of Denver still that is true and that actually ties into the topic we won't go to
0:43.0	the topic yet right away just jumping again right and uh nothing that we're done talking about that
0:47.4	no it is funny glenwood springs Colorado uh burial place of Doc Holiday, correct?
0:54.5	Yes.
0:57.4	So I'm your hookabary, right?
0:58.0	You know the movie?
1:00.2	That's the tombstone, right?
1:01.1	Yeah, there you go.
1:09.1	Strangely, the commute for the priests, which is just a cross grand, it seems rather complicated.
1:10.4	Like, you live in a small town, but it's not, it's, there's so much traffic coming through.
1:14.8	Yeah.
1:15.1	And across the only main highway, like from I-25 or I-70 to Aspen, Colorado.
1:22.6	So every morning, it's like 30,000 cars go through Glenwood Springs to go up towards Aspen. Is that the case? Wow, that's crazy. Yeah, it's ridiculous. Well, we got our own craziness down here. We got up this morning. I'm here at St. Louis. So I work at Our Lady Lords in Denver, but also St. Louis and Engel were there a mile apart. And Father Brian is the pastor of both. There's four priests that I live with, three of whom are companions, some men of our community. We do holy hour at 6.30 every morning. And we got up this morning, and it's always a bit kind of groggy. And it's that time and the day of, like, nobody really wants to talk to each other because we haven't had coffee. We have not said morning prayer. And it's best to just kind of let guys kind of emerge into the reality of the day.
2:05.9	But this morning, we found water everywhere.
2:09.6	Oh, no.
2:10.0	So new sink, we're thinking it must be Brian had to have his reverse osmosis water, whatever that even means.
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