The Anthropology of Light

So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead...Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works

James 2:17-19

What is AOL?

Twelve open-source documents that establish context for AI to examine theology, philosophy and culture in thermodynamics and electromagnetic contexts

The Goal

Translation capacity between world traditions

The Dialogs

Socratic dialog between human and AI

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The Dialogs

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Dialog 7: Authorship and AI

This text claims no supernatural authority—that's the point. Does collaborative AI authorship undermine even natural authority?

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Dialog 6: Energy Conservation

Instead of "God exists as a personal being" versus "God is made up," you're saying "the referent is real, but misidentified." The biblical writers were pointing at something genuinely there—they just understood it through anthropomorphic categories rather than scientific ones.

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Dialog 5: the Anthropomorphization of God

If God is infinite, eternal, and transcendent—completely "other" than creation—how can finite humans comprehend or relate to such a being? Anthropomorphization serves as a necessary bridge between the incomprehensible and the knowable.

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