Director
Yorick Wilks
Institution International Society for Science and Religion
Spiritual intelligence is a distinctive but under-explored mode of human intelligence. This gives rise to many questions. What are the distinctive characteristics of language that arise from spiritual experience? Why is religious language so difficult to translate and thus understand? How is human intelligence significant from the perspective of theology?
Directed by Yorick Wilks, this project aims to advance the scientific understanding of spiritual intelligence by using artificial intelligence (AI) and computational cognitive science. It will show the value of AI in different ways:
- use cognitive architectures to explore how attention is deployed in spiritual practices;
- use computational linguistics to investigate the use of language in religion and spirituality;
- develop a theology of intelligence by comparing human intelligence to both nonhuman animal intelligence and machine intelligence;
- undertake exploratory computer programming to model spiritual reasoning; and
- conduct preliminary research on the potential for building an artificial "spiritual companion" to help people flourish.
Project Resources
Abstract In this article, I assess (1) whether some cyborgs and AI robots can theoretically be considered persons; and (2) how we will know if...
Abstract From the middle of the twentieth‐century onwards, there has been a growing emphasis on the importance of relationality in what it mea...
Abstract In a series of recent articles, including his Boyle Lecture, Rowan Williams has developed a theology of the role of intelligence and ...
The debate about whether, and in what sense, there is ‘spiritual intelligence’ remains unresolved. We suggest it will be helpful to make a dis...
Abstract Engagement with artificial intelligence (AI) can be highly beneficial for theology. This article maps the landscape of the various wa...
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