@jamespoulos END/ “...Given that OpenAI recently changed their terms of service to no longer prohibit military and warfare use cases…” - Euronews (Feb. 22, 2024)
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Copy of tweet thread here: @EuroConOfficial and @EsmeLKPartridge 3/ Framed in evolutionary terms then, does there ultimately exist a practical distinction between, say, the soul of collective consciousness and a ‘Deus ex machina’? Perhaps only the acceptable day of the Lord will answer that one, planetarily speaking. Quote tweet: Thank you. And you’ll know @kevin2kelly, of course: “The apparent veil between the organic and the manufactured has crumpled to reveal that the two really are, and have always been, of one being. What should we call the common soul?” x.com/nick_routledge… end/ @jamespoulos “Who has the fullness of soul in them, and the authority this vitality confers, to triumph over the computed and computing world in its worldliness, to redeem it and turn it back toward service to the given life of the world and we the living?” Suprahuman truth?
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Copy of tweet and quote tweet here: Goes both ways. Long before the Web, planetary Sages anticipated the advent of a cyberspace-actualized dimension of meaningfulness, constituting a 'quintessentially political' surprise positively addressing such base shenanigans at a totalizing, substrative, ontological level. 2/ Only when the fat lady sings, and not a moment before, will a bifurcation point, long anticipated as a seismic evolutionary threshold and surge, advance a sunburst of revelation transcending the mystery of history. "Teilhard’s noosphere is alive and well.” – Jean Houston What if the dark, mercenary genius of algorithmically-supercharged, exploitative media-ecology's claim upon the private soul is ultimately checked only in recognizing its larger, evolutionary role delivering us to a sunburst of revelation overturning the tables of history itself?
@Dan_Bowdoin Our call, in practice, is to confront the simultaneity of the enormous force of the Zeitgeist and its primary, expressive medium. I wonder what Ellul, so presciently alert to the transcendent significance of wedded spiritual and media environments, would have made of the Web Era.
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Copy of tweet thread here: Jesus provided us with no old or new 'concept' of the kingdom of God at all. He brought God's kingdom himself. “Though he never coined the phrase, 'the medium is the messiah' may have been McLuhan’s ultimate perceptual insight. The 'medium is the message' may have been merely its conceptual phrasing.” - Read Mercer Schuchardt, The Reformation as Media Event, Second Nature. @theccsn Painting-human-synthesis graphic with calligraphy reading, The Interface Is You 5/ McLuhan: "In Jesus, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message: it is the one case where we can say that the medium and the message are fully one and the same...it is only at the level of a lived Christianity that the medium really is the message."