#d.c. schindler

[apesoformythoughts]

‘When I said above that duplicity is the essence of AI, this is just what I had in mind: the essence of this artifact, the very purpose for which it was made, is to pretend to intelligence without being intelligent, and to pass off this pretense as “good enough” to justify its replacement of the real thing, compensating perhaps by accomplishing its partial tasks in a superhuman sort of way (because a real thing can never be as effectively instrumentalized as its Ersatz).’

— D.C. Schindler: “AI As a Very Deepfake”

[apesoformythoughts]

“But as Dante indicates with his placement of the Greek philosophers in limbo, the symbolic is only a preparatory movement towards the sacramental. [Roberto] Calasso might be able to usher you to the threshold, but only a heart and mind open to grace will compel you to cross.”

— Scott Beauchamp: “Gathering Up the Symbolic Losses of Modernity”

[apesoformythoughts]

«As incarnate, the truth of God in Christ was not only an idea to consider, but at the same time a reality to follow. Christ did of course proclaim the Good News, but this was not the delivery of a “detachable” message. Christ is the Good News in person, which is why his proclamation of the gospel was at the same time a gathering of people to himself and a sending of them out (apo-stellō) . . . with the final aim of reaching “to the ends of the earth.” This brings to light the meaning and mission of the Church. The most essential description of the Church is that it is the extension of the incarnation into space and time, beyond the particular existence of the man Jesus Christ. This description brings to light the priority of actuality. The Church is not in the first place a group of individuals who decide to come together because they share the same belief—i.e., because they accept the same “particular opinion” as true. Instead, the Church is a reality that coincides in some sense with the faith.»

— D.C. Schindler: “What is Liberalism?”

[apesoformythoughts]

“We will argue that this undoing of Christianity [instituted by Liberalism] necessarily coincides with a metaphysical reversal of the classical priority of act over potency, and will suggest that the resultant primacy of potency serves to explain many of the common features of contemporary life that are the sociological expression of liberalism as a political phenomenon and theory.”

— D.C. Schindler: “What is Liberalism?”