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by Meghan O'Gieblyn

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Readers praised the book’s blend of memoir, philosophy, theology, and science, noting approachable prose and rigorous yet humane inquiry. They valued the author’s personal context and open-ended questions about AI, faith, metaphor, and equity, especially concerns over algorithmic opacity. While some found the philosophical opening dense, most saw the interdisciplinary approach as engaging and rewarding, more inquiry than prescription.

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A strikingly original exploration of what it might mean to be authentically human in the age of artificial intelligence, from the author of the critically-acclaimed Interior States. - "At times personal, at times philosophical, with a bracing mixture of openness and skepticism, it speaks thoughtfully and articulately to the most crucial issues awaiting our future." --Phillip Lopate

"[A] truly fantastic book."--Ezra Klein

For most of human history the world was a magical and enchanted place ruled by forces beyond our understanding. The rise of science and Descartes's division of mind from world made materialism our ruling paradigm, in the process asking whether our own consciousness--i.e., souls--might be illusions. Now the inexorable rise of technology, with artificial intelligences that surpass our comprehension and control, and the spread of digital metaphors for self-understanding, the core questions of existence--identity, knowledge, the very nature and purpose of life itself--urgently require rethinking.

Meghan O'Gieblyn tackles this challenge with philosophical rigor, intellectual reach, essayistic verve, refreshing originality, and an ironic sense of contradiction. She draws deeply and sometimes humorously from her own personal experience as a formerly religious believer still haunted by questions of faith, and she serves as the best possible guide to navigating the territory we are all entering.

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  • Title God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
  • Author Meghan O'Gieblyn
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage
  • Publication date 2022-07-12
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9780525562719 / 0525562710
  • Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.7 in (20.07 x 12.95 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Midwest
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Essays, Humanity
  • Dewey Decimal Code 814.6

About the author

MEGHAN O'GIEBLYN is the author of the essay collection Interior States, which was published to wide acclaim and won the Believer Book Award for Nonfiction. Her writing has received three Pushcart Prizes and appeared in The Best American Essays anthology. She writes essays and features for Harper's Magazine, The New Yorker, The Guardian, Wired, The New York Times, and elsewhere. She lives with her husband in Madison, Wisconsin.
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