• Artificial Intelligence and Spirituality 

      Calderero Hernández, José Fernando (International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence (IJIMAI), 09/2021)
      Drawing from a conceptual review of the terms ‘mind’, ‘intelligence’, ‘spirit’, ‘spirituality’, ‘spiritual intelligence’ and their possible interrelations, an approach to the concept ‘human nature’ is made in relation to ...
    • Artificial Intelligence Seen Through the Lens of Bateson’s Ecology of Mind 

      Griffiths, Dai (International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence (IJIMAI), 09/2021)
      Gregory Bateson developed a number of ideas which are relevant to artificial intelligence, and in particular to the ascription of qualities such as mind, consciousness, spirituality and the sacred. Relevant sections of ...
    • Can AI Help Us to Understand Belief? Sources, Advances, Limits, and Future Directions 

      Vestrucci, Andrea; Lumbreras, Sara; Oviedo, Lluis (International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence (IJIMAI), 09/2021)
      The study of belief is expanding and involves a growing set of disciplines and research areas. These research programs attempt to shed light on the process of believing, understood as a central human cognitive function. ...
    • Editor's Note 

      Burgos, Daniel; Oviedo, Lluis; Griffiths, Dai; Vestrucci, Andrea (International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence (IJIMAI), 09/2021)
      Research on the relationship between computing and the meaning of human life flourishes proportionally to the increasing digitalization of our world. More and more, reflections on ethics and politics, spiritual values and ...
    • Emergent Models for Moral AI Spirituality 

      Graves, Mark (International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence (IJIMAI), 09/2021)
      Examining AI spirituality can illuminate problematic assumptions about human spirituality and AI cognition, suggest possible directions for AI development, reduce uncertainty about future AI, and yield a methodological ...
    • Rituals and Data Analytics: A Mixed-Methods Model to Process Personal Beliefs 

      Burgos, Daniel (International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence (IJIMAI), 09/2021)
      The goal of this research is to delve into ritual, religious, and secular phenomenology. It concentrates specifically on the relationship between pagan, cultural, celebratory, and traditional rituals and any other form of ...
    • “The Singularity is near!” Visions of Artificial Intelligence in Posthumanism and Transhumanism 

      Krüger, Oliver (International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence (IJIMAI), 09/2021)
      Over the past 20 years, the idea of singularity has become increasingly important to the technological visions of posthumanism and transhumanism. The article first introduces key posthumanist authors such as Marvin Minsky, ...
    • Why the Future Might Actually Need Us: A Theological Critique of the ‘Humanity-As-Midwife-For-Artificial-Superintelligence’ Proposal 

      Dorobantu, Marius (International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence (IJIMAI), 09/2021)
      If machines could one day acquire superhuman intelligence, what role would still be left for humans to play in the world? The ‘midwife proposal,’ coming from futurists like Ray Kurzweil or James Lovelock, sees the invention ...