When Blood Claims Reason’s Jurisdiction A relationship can end long before the body receives the news. The belongings have been returned. The number is blocked. There is no practical reason for further contact. Yet the argument continues inside the nervous system. The body remains assembled for trial, rehearsing evidence,
WHAT Ai OFFERS, IF ANYHTING, TO THE INEFFABLE Artificial intelligence has brought language to an extraordinary pitch of competence. Mysticism begins where competence ceases to matter. A large language model is pure language. Nothing else. It has no body beneath the sentence, no silence behind the word, no life that
Against the increasingly solemn business of being alive One of the things I love most about being with my children is how quickly I become an idiot. Silliness is one of the great forgotten human virtues. Not humour exactly. Humour can be intelligent, crafted, barbed, defensive, professional. A person can
Revelation, Incarnation and the Problem of Form There is a suspicion I have begun to entertain about mysticism: that we have made it too nice. The contemporary account of mystical experience tends toward moral confection. One dissolves the ego, encounters unity, touches God, drinks the medicine, enters the void, and
On soul hunger, romantic fantasy and the failure to recognise love There was a time when romantic love was not expected to carry the entire weight of adult life. People fell in love, of course. They desired, betrayed, pined, wrote poems, crossed countries, ruined families, ruined themselves. But marriage was
THE NEW RITUALS OF GRIEF IN THE AGE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Something weird is happening between human beings and machines. We are bringing artificial intelligence our grief. Not only the grief of death, but the other deaths too: the end of a relationship, the collapse of a career, the loss
HUMAN, MACHINE AND THE CONCRETISATION OF ARCHETYPE The Recursive Shadow Human, Machine, and the Concretisation of Archetype The machine has no hands. We have hands. That may be the most important thing to understand about our relationship with artificial intelligence. We are becoming increasingly concerned with what artificial intelligence might