Machines and Animals: Can AI Be "Alive?" | Anselm Ramelow OP

This talk will be on 7 May 2024 by Anselm Ramelow as part of the Science & Religion Online series "Immateriality in the Age of Science." For more videos like this one or to learn more about the Science & Religion project please visit: https://angelicum.it/TI-science-and-r...

Fr. Anselm Ramelow is a Catholic priest in the Order of Preachers. He is professor of philosophy at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley and currently the chair of the philosophy department. He also taught at the University of San Francisco and the Munich School of Philosophy and is a Senior Fellow at the Berkeley Institute. He obtained his doctorate under Robert Spaemann in Munich on Leibniz and the Spanish Jesuits (Gott, Freiheit, Weltenwahl, 1997) and did theological work on George Lindbeck and the question of a Thomist philosophy and theology of language (Beyond Modernism? - George Lindbeck and the Linguistic Turn in Theology, 2005). He contributed articles to the Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie and essays on topics at the intersection of philosophy and theology, as well as a translation and commentary on part of Aquinas’ De veritate. He continues to work on questions of free will, philosophy of religion (miracles, existence and nature of God) and philosophical aesthetics.

2023 Online Series Description:
One source of tension that people find between science and religion is that the former focuses on material reality while the latter invokes and makes claims about spiritual realities of an immaterial nature. To some, the lack of scientific evidence for spiritual realities make them questionable at best, and nonsensical at worst. This online series will explore natural arguments for the existence of spiritual realities, namely, God, angels, and the human soul. Primarily philosophical in nature, these talks will look at both classical and contemporary defenses of the immaterial. By providing reasonable arguments for the existence of a spiritual order, we can deepen our vision of reality. The beauty and complexity of the physical order that science provides can be placed in harmony with the broader reality physical reflection and revelation provide.