Artificial Intelligence, Moral Imagination, and Spiritual Evolution (dialogue with Roman Campolo)

Roman and I had another wide-ranging dialogue. Topics traversed include:

• artificial intelligence and the increasing automation of human life
• the elemental agencies that technologies may be expressions of
• the cultivation of moral imagination as perception via the heart
• Rudolf Steiner’s cosmogony as articulated in Occult Science: An Outline
• the inevitability of loneliness on the spiritual path and its transmutation into loving solitude 
• Alfred North Whitehead’s account of so-called “empty” space as a process of “sheer transition” 
• Kant as the guardian of the threshold of supersensible knowledge
• Fichte’s absolute ego and Schelling’s physics of the world-soul
• Hegel’s account of the evolution of consciousness in the Phenomenology of Spirit