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Can artificial intelligence decode faith? Explore how futuristic science and belief intersect in technology-driven societies.
Can artificial intelligence truly understand faith? 🤖✝️
As technology advances, the conversation between science and spirituality grows deeper. Explore how AI, belief, and futuristic innovation intersect and what it means for the future of faith.
On Machine Learning and Feelings
People have always been told that what makes them human is the innate (some even say god-like) capability to think, to generate information, to articulate ideas, and to process insight.
And because of this, some were made to feel less because they do not, cannot do as much or even as fast than the others.
I think (better), therefore, I am (better).
The ratio in the homo, the homo is the ratio.
But with the advent and rapid evolution of Artificial Intelligence (AI), this whole complex of being and identity is crumbling.
Not a few are starting to wonder: there must be something else that makes people human. Anyway, the so-called bright ones don't seem to be any less cold in logic and reasoning than the heartless creations they have produced, e.g., smart bombs that know no age, race, or religion, intricate religions that spare no god or demon, crude politics that respects no history or geography.
Amidst the devastation these creations have wrought around the world, can't it be that what makes us human today dwells not in the realm of reason but emotion? That is, the capacity to feel, not just for one's self, but even more so for others. Sentience, but in a broader, relationally-rooted, collective sense.
So what I am saying is that in a way, we're not simply machines because we have feelings: we feel for other people, we feel responsible, we feel accountable. Either because of the cry of one's conscience or sheer burst of compassion from within.
This portrait of humanity has vivid hues and tones in the Pinoy context. The essence of 'pagpapaka-tao' (being a genuine human) lies in one's commitment to 'pakikipagkapwa-tao' (to find others in relation to one's self). One is good in 'pakikipagkapwa-tao' if one's 'pakikiramdam' (to feel out) is spot on, on time, and most important of all, genuine.
Feelings.
For people.
Cannot be generated.
It can only sprout from an overflow of a good heart ('mabuting loob').
To do otherwise is what turned people into someone needing to be 'matauhan' which basically refers to the internal process of regaining one's personhood. Or simply, the existential salvific moment of being reconciled to one's humanity and to the rest of humanity as well. Within the Pinoy multiverse of sensibility, these two modes of 'awakening' are closely intertwined and inseparable.
This arc of 'redemption' is what machines, with all its expanding capacity for intelligence, don't have.
Yet.
-Rei Lemuel Crizaldo (June 24, 2025)
🤳 What can Paul's letter to the Ephesians teach us about our social media presence?
📝 My latest blog for Premier Digital
https://www.premierdigital.info/post/what-would-paul-say
💻 NEW WEBINAR
"There are people online who are hungry for spiritual nourishment."
Social media tips and techniques for churches based on a session I delivered to St Padarn's Institute.
➡️ https://youtu.be/spCwQvHPwd4
Loved working on this Online Pilgrimage project with Diocese of Llandaff, Church in Wales.
We used Google Earth to create an Easter Stations of the Cross visiting some of Wales' most beautiful churches along the way.
The Digital Pilgrimage project - Matt Batten https://www.premierdigital.info/?wix-vod-video-id=3dc0b4ffa5fc4cf88c9c666784e06558&wix-vod-comp-id=comp-knabd0q2
https://www.premierdigital.info/?wix-vod-video-id=3dc0b4ffa5fc4cf88c9c666784e06558&wix-vod-comp-id=comp-knabd0q2
Tim Hughes: How Covid-19 is changing the way we worship
The songwriter says its time to kill our "obsession with excellence"
"I think that there’s a real encouragement that needs to happen around: “Don’t just sit back and watch.” Y’know, you’re not watching Downton Abbey! This isn’t a chance just to consume. "
In this episode of Wrapped In Media we’re joined by Dr Matthew Tan, Senior Lecturer in Theology at the University of Notre Dame, Sydney, Aus
"Digital culture flips a lot of our tradition conceptions of what it means to be the body of Christ "
Super interview with theologian Stephen Garner and Dr Matthew Tan.
Today, Ash Wednesday, is the start of Lent. This is beginning of forty days of reflection about the Christian story with lots of Lent Courses and reflections available. Premier is offering three free courses which you could join even now! But today is a day for repentance, humility, and an awareness of our own fragilit
Church of England’s Instagram filter for Ash Wednesday caused a bit of a stir! I loved it... Here’s blog from Revd Dr Pete Phillips, from Premier Digital, talking about Ash Wednesday
