The author in 2022 testing the psi effect on a random number generator with engineers from the Princeton University parapsychology lab.

Artificial Intelligence and the Crisis of Materialism

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is back in the news after a Google engineer was recently suspended for postulating that an artificial-intelligence chatbot might have a “soul.” This debate, and others like it, may dominate philosophy in the unfolding century.

So far, however, the AI dispute is one that Western society has proven ill-fit to address. The problem lies somewhere…