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Classic Replay: Humanity, Ai and the Metaverse - being human in an unhuman world with Alan Noble and Kelly Kapic

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.72.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

First aired in 2021, today's replay looks at what it truly means to be human and how young people today are building identity amidst the powers of ai and the metaverse. Why are we increasingly anxious, stressed and obsessed with identity? What can Christianity offer to re-humanise us?  These and more questions get addressed in conversation between Alan Noble, author of ‘You Are Not Your Own’ and Kelly Kapic, author of ‘You’re Only Human’. Books mentioned in today's show: You are not your own Alan Noble Shop Amazon UK https://shorturl.at/sHMS7S Shop Amazon US https://shorturl.at/cdisz You're only human by Kelly Kapic Shop Amazon UK https://shorturl.at/hoLUY Shop Amazon US https://shorturl.at/rK047 Find out more • Subscribe to the Unbelievable? Podcast: https://pod.link/267142101 • More shows, free eBook & newsletter: https://premierunbelievable.com • For live events: http://www.unbelievable.live • For online learning: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/courses • Support us in the USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support us in the rest of the world: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate

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0:00.0

I'm going to see. Hello and this week we're delving back into the archives

0:24.4

to bring you a discussion on the question. How should humans live in an

0:28.3

inhuman world? That's our topic on unbelievable today. I'm joined by

0:31.7

Alan Noble and Kelly Capik. unbelievable today's

0:34.0

let's jump in on today's discussion.

0:37.0

We do live in an increasingly technologically connected world

0:41.0

and it's enabled the acceleration of human productivity but has also

0:44.8

brought new pressures of being able to compare our identity our success with everybody else.

0:50.0

Well, Alan Noble is associate professor of English at Oklahoma Baptist University,

0:54.5

he's editor-in-chief of Christ and pop culture, and the author of the new book,

0:58.9

You Are Not Your Own, Belonging to God in an inhuman world. My guest today is Kelly

1:04.7

Kappek, he's professor of theological studies at Covenant College in Lookout Mountain

1:09.1

Georgia and the author of a very soon-to-be released book, Your Only Human, how your limits reflect God's design and why that's good news. You can preorder it now.

1:18.0

Both these books bring a Christian perspective to the pressures of living as humans in a world that we weren't

1:24.4

necessarily designed to live in. So it's great to have you both Alan and Kelly joining me

1:30.3

on the show today. Thanks for having us.

1:33.0

Oh, it's a pleasure.

1:35.0

And I do anticipate this won't be a kind of a ding-dong,

1:38.0

you know, a slug fest or anything.

1:40.0

I'm expecting, you know, very much as sort of a dialogue where we explore the ideas and I've loved both of your books really good books very very timely

1:49.7

Pressian books for our culture today. Let's start with you Alan. Tell us a little

1:53.7

bit about yourself and what led you to write, you are not your own. So I'm

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