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The Mythic Dimensions of Artificial Intelligence with James Tunney

New Thinking Oct 15, 2023 James Tunney, LLM, is an Irish barrister who has lectured on legal matters throughout the world. He is a poet, artist, scholar, novelist, and author of The Mystery of the Trapped Light: Mystical Thoughts in the Dark Age of Scientism plus The Mystical Accord: Sutras to Suit Our Times, Lines for Spiritual Evolution; also Empire of Scientism: The Dispiriting Conspiracy and Inevitable Tyranny of Scientocracy, TechBondAge: Slavery of the Human Spirit, Human Entrance to Transhumanism: Machine Merger and the End of Humanity, and Plantation of the Automatons, and Mystic Murmuration. His most recent book is The Mythic Aim of AI: Maiming the Mind. His website is https://www.jamestunney.com/ Here he emphasizes the importance of understanding the soul-eviscerating forces that underly civilization’s rush toward technological control. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:07:28 Control 00:19:19 Trickster 00:33:33 Law and outlaw 00:36:46 Immuration 00:47:00 Daedalus 00:53:56 Frankenstein 01:01:52 Inevitability 01:15:46 Soul 01:32:05 Disillusionment 01:38:28 Conclusion Edited subtitles for this video are available in Russian, Portuguese, Italian, German, French, and Spanish. New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. (Recorded on September 22, 2023)