“The Soul in the Machine” – John GRAY

Those who fear conscious machines do so because they think that consciousness is the most valuable feature of humans – and because they fear anything they cannot subject to their will. They fear the evolution of conscious machines for the same reason they seek to become masters of the Earth. As machines slip from human…

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“Dos teologías negativas: Baruch Spinoza y Lev Shestov” – John GRAY

No es fácil trazar la línea que separa el ateísmo de la teología negativa. Un ateo que niegue que Dios alguno crease el mundo podría afirmar la existencia de un Dios que está presente en el mundo, que lo impregna, pero del que poco o nada puede decirse en positivo. Convencido de que ese Dios…

“Em que acreditam os ateus?” – Juan Arnau NAVARRO

Gray é um ateu encantado por viver num mundo sem deuses ou com um deus inominável. Mas se declara inimigo do ateu militante que, embora negue sê-lo, é o pior crente de todos, tedioso e pouco inspirador (o nada não precisa de propaganda), e resgata ateus como Santayana, que amava a religião, ou como Schopenhauer,…

“How different really are atheists and believers?” – Costica BRADATAN

The Washington Post, November 16, 2018 Costica Bradatan is a professor of humanities at Texas Tech University. He is the author, most recently, of “Dying for Ideas: The Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers.” ‘If you want to understand atheism and religion,” writes John Gray in his new book, “Seven Types of Atheism,” “you must forget…