and paleontologist, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, famously made the evolution of the cosmos the central theme of his posthumous book The Phenomenon of Man (1955). Here he embraced cosmic evolution, and argued for a teleological evolution in w…their inherent right to expand westward and seize territory from the Native Americans, the word can and must be dissociated from that historical event. In fact, the concept of “destiny” has often been used in the context of theological disc…29. On the anthropic principle and its philosophical implications see John Barrow and Frank Tipler, The Anthropic Cosmological Principle (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986), Universe or Multiverse? Bernard Carr, ed. (Cambridge: Cambri…
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
theologian · 4 mentions across 2 readings
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Teilhard de Chardin was a paleontologist and theologian who theorized cosmic evolution culminating in a collective human consciousness, a vision that appears in this course's engagement with teleological narratives about technology and artificial intelligence. The readings invoke his evolutionary framework to examine whether contemporary theories of AI, emergence, and systems thinking inherit or reinvent his quasi-mystical beliefs in inevitable progress toward unified consciousness. His work serves as a historical precedent for how scientific and spiritual thinking converge around the idea of technological destiny.
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