Ilia Delio: Thinking Theologically about AI with Teilhard de Chardin

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Dr. Tripp Fuller | Theologian, Philosopher, Minister

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.6 • 612 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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In this episode, Ilia Delio returns to discuss Teilhard de Chardin's philosophy and its relevance to current technological advancements, specifically artificial intelligence. We explore Teilhard's integration of science, religion, and evolution, highlighting his concept of 'withinness' and 'withoutness' and his vision of a future marked by greater complexity and consciousness. The discussion delves into Teilhard's anticipation of technology's role in human evolution, the need for a cosmic perspective in understanding AI, and the potential for technology to enhance human love and compassion. The conversation also touches on Teilhard's notion of the 'noosphere,' the mystical elements of human existence, and the imperative to envision and co-create a future that fosters planetary unity and the greater good. Ilia Delio, OSF, PhD is a Franciscan Sister of Washington, DC, and American theologian specializing in science and religion, with interests in evolution, physics, and neuroscience and the import of these for theology. Ilia currently holds the Josephine C. Connelly Endowed Chair in Theology at Villanova University and is the author of twenty books, including Care for Creation (coauthored with Keith Warner and Pamela Woods) which won two Catholic Press Book Awards in 2009, first place for social concerns and second place in spirituality. Her book The Emergent Christ won a third-place Catholic Press Book Award in 2011 for the area of Science and Religion. Her recent books include The Unbearable Wholeness of Being: God, Evolution and the Power of Love (Orbis, 2013), which received the 2014 Silver Nautilus Book Award and a third-place Catholic Press Association Award for Faith and Science. Ilia holds two honorary doctorates, one from St. Francis University in 2015 and one from Sacred Heart University in 2020. WATCH the conversation on YouTube Previous Episodes with Ilia Delio The Not Yet God Bonaventure & the Cosmos in Process Catching a Cosmic Faith the Entangled God of my Heart _____________________ Join my Substack - Process This! Join our upcoming class - THE RISE OF BONHOEFFER, for a guided tour of Bonhoeffer's life and thought. Come to THEOLOGY BEER CAMP. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.7	slash setup all right hello everyone thispp. And today on the podcast and the live stream for all of you that are joining us live is Iliadilio. And we've been having a series the first time on the, when I switched to substack, I had to come up with a name for it. And I thought,
0:56.0	process this, which is both like that I enjoy process philosophy and such. So process this.
1:02.1	And what happens in most of the podcast is I read someone's book and then we process it together.
1:08.8	And I thought, this is and uh and so then I
1:12.1	decided well let's try having a series where I talked to scholars in different disciplines around
1:17.2	the same topic and the first one was I went for was artificial intelligence so we've had a host
1:24.7	of different people from like lawmakers, philosophers,
1:27.8	from different parts of, theologians from different parts of the church,
1:32.0	different kinds of science and such.
1:34.4	And now, here we are, Ilya, which, you know,
1:38.7	it's kind of like talking to the home team when in the process this series,
1:42.3	I get to talk to you about AI.
1:45.5	But you're also Catholic.
1:51.5	So there we go. Our ecumenical diversity is happening right now. It's great to be here with you,
1:57.9	as always. Oh, yeah. Very excited that you're coming at Theology Beer Camp this year in October.
2:01.2	That's going to be fun. That's going to be fun. Oh, yeah.
2:09.7	So one of the things I thought that might be helpful, knowing that we've had people from a host of different perspectives, Michael Morelli, who's spent a lot of time advancing like a very deep
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