Tag: Alex O’Connor

Mind layers human consciousness and identity concept

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Date
September 6, 2026

Categorized
Philosophy of Mind

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Alex O’Connor, Emergence concept, Robert Lawrence Kuhn}

Former Atheist: Materialism Cannot Explain Consciousness

_{"Emergence," the claim that consciousness somehow emerged from matter, faces serious obstacles, he says} _{News
September 6, 2026

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O’Connor “argues that radical emergence may not exist at all. If that’s true, consciousness may not emerge from the brain but instead be fundamental to reality itself.”

A conceptual artwork showcasing a robot in prayer, symbolizing faith, spirituality, and worship in a dark room with fire in the background.

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News
Date
September 21, 2025

Categorized
Large Language Models (LLMs), Philosophy, Religion

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Al-Ghazali, Alex O’Connor, Aristotle (384–322 BC), Avicenna (Ibn Sina), Ethan Hawke, Jeremy Renner, Jim Caviezel, Kalam Cosmological Argument, Mel Gibson, Peter Kreeft, Scott Ventureyra, Shia LaBeouf, Sylvester Stallone, Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), Wilhelm Leibniz, William Lane Craig, YoungHoon Kim}

Unexpected: ChatGPT and the Return of God

_{Scott Ventureyra talks about ChatGPT and other large language models (chatbots )AI in the unlikely role of unexpected apologists for Christianity} _{News
September 21, 2025

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Large Language Models (LLMs), Philosophy, Religion}

Far from heralding a coming secular triumph over God, the verbal output of chatbots suggests that, generally, people conclude that God must in fact exist.