You Are Not Data (Christopher West) on AI and the Soul | Ep. 595

Humanity faces an identity crisis in the age of artificial intelligence, where equating personhood with disembodied intelligence threatens to rupture the essential union of body and soul. Artificial intelligence, while useful for data processing, risks "thingifying" persons and "personifying" machines, fostering a culture that seeks salvation from the body rather than the salvation of the body. This modern "excarnation" mirrors ancient heresies viewing the physical as a prison, whereas the Christian tradition asserts that the body is destined for divinization. Contraception serves as a foundational transhumanist technology, deforming human nature by severing the link between sexual expression and its generative purpose. Ultimately, the sacredness of the human person, rooted in the marriage of spirit and matter, remains the only authentic framework for understanding love, gender, and the divine story written into our physical existence.