6 papers in the library · 5 citations · publishing 2017-2026
Scientia et Fides August 24, 2026 Stanisław Szeląg
The rise of ChatGPT and various other publicly available AI chatbots has brought the discussion regarding AI to the forefront of academic and public discourse. Yet when it comes to the most important question: how genuinely intelligent, or human-like can AI be, it seems that many philosophers are satisfied with the answers given in the past century. The essay surveys some philosophical visions...
Scientia et Fides August 24, 2026 Rizziero Carofano, Liberato De Caro
Maria Valtorta, a mystic lived in Italy in the XX century, claimed to have received mystical visions about the life of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and some saints. She reported in her writings texts and dictations attributed to Jesus, her guardian angel, Azaria, and the Paraclete. Additionally, she wrote an autobiography. These texts underwent binary and multiclass supervised classification using...
Scientia et Fides April 16, 2026 Berenika Seryczyńska, Tomasz Duda
Debates on AI primarily focus on its moral implications and capacity to simulate religious experiences. However, an analysis of pilgrimage offers a unique perspective on broader transformations in religious practice, ranging from traditional spiritual journeys to modern, technology-assisted routes organized by travel agencies. Equipped with technological conveniences, emphasize efficiency and...
Scientia et Fides March 14, 2020 Ricard Casadesús
Creare est unire? An outline of Teilhard de Chardin's metaphysics of unionAs underlying leitmotiv throughout all his work, Teilhard de Chardin develops the relationship between spirit and matter. Matter (multiplicity) and spirit (unity) are related as follows: centricity (unity) depends on the complexity (multiplicity). Nothing in the universe exists but spirit in different states or degrees of...
Scientia et Fides March 14, 2020 Ekaterina Nikolaevna Gnatik, Sergey Alexandrovich Lokhov, Dmitry Valerievich Mamchenkov et al.
Purpose: The main purpose of this article is to show that the paradigm of viewing the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness in analytic philosophy makes it a pseudo-problem rather than a ‘hard problem’. The objectives of this research included showing the reasons for the authors’ thesis, demonstrating the irreducibility of consciousness as a special layer of reality, and proposing a way to overcome...
Scientia et Fides July 18, 2017 Włodzisław Duch 5 citations
There is no controversy in psychology or brain sciences that brains create mind and consciousness. Doubts and opinions to the contrary are quite frequently expressed in non-scientific publications. In particular the idea that conscious mind is received, rather than created by the brain, is quite often used against “materialistic” understanding of consciousness. I summarize here arguments...