The Cosmic Thought of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (Robert Wright & Ilia Delio)
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🗓️ 31 March 2024
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Summary
0:33 Ilia’s background 2:21 Things to know about the noosphere 8:43 Teilhard’s transgressive theological and scientific thought 14:57 Does AI suggest a “transcendent nature to nature”? 18:36 The Teilhardian solution to the mind-body problem 29:44 How Darwinian was Teilhard, really? 38:37 Teilhard on love 43:33 “Techno-sapiens,” redemption, and the Omega Point 55:06 Heading to Overtime
Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Ilia Delio (Center for Christogenesis, The Unbearable Wholeness of Being, The Not-Yet God). Recorded January 10, 2024.
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Overtime titles:
0:00 Ilia: We’re a speeding world and no one’s at the wheel 13:20 Is becoming a global superorganism a good thing? 19:43 "God is more Omega than Alpha" and other cryptic Teilhard-isms 25:57 Did Teilhard believe in aliens?
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast. |
| 0:33.3 | Hi, Ilya. |
| 0:35.8 | Hi, Bob. |
| 0:37.2 | How you doing? |
| 0:39.7 | I'm doing very well. Thank you. |
| 0:43.3 | Actually, the truth is you have a cold, but it's very nice of you not to mention that to the larger viewing audience. |
| 0:49.1 | But I try not to think about it. I'm figuring mind over matter in this case, you know. |
| 0:54.8 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:55.5 | That's my philosophy. |
| 0:57.1 | It's never worked, but that's my philosophy. |
| 0:59.8 | So let me introduce us. |
| 1:01.7 | I'm Robert Wright, publisher of the Non-Zero Newsletter, and this is the Non-Zero podcast. |
| 1:07.2 | You are Ilya Delio, a professor of theology at Villanova University, and also a sister in the Franciscan order. |
| 1:17.1 | Now, Pope Francis, I guess, chose a name Francis by way of kind of embracing the values of the Franciscan order. |
| 1:24.8 | Is that the idea? |
| 1:26.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:29.4 | Actually, he embraced the values of Francis of Assisi in particular. In 1979, Pope John Paul II, name Francis of Azizzi, the patron's |
| 1:37.6 | state of ecology. So it was a good name of Paul Francis, who really has brought to light the whole environmental agenda, certainly in the |
| 1:46.9 | Catholic community and the need for interconnectedness. And I think we all realize that wherever we |
| 1:52.1 | are now today on this planet. And environmental sustainability, you know, and changing our lives. |
| 1:58.9 | Aren't the Franciscans also known for kind of concern for the downtrodden and a particular emphasis on that? |
| 2:05.5 | Yeah. |
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