Cybergrace: the Search for God in the Digital World
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The question of whether we can find spiritual life in cyberspace is beginning to be asked. Convergence is a thought -provoking, affirmative answer to one of the most intriguing inquiries of our time.According to the prevailing view, an unbridgeable schism separates the world of the spirit and that of the machine. According to an increasingly compelling idea known as emergence, however, the gulf may be an imaginary one. Fifty years ago, Jesuit paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin combined his lifelong passions of God and science to predict the arrival of cyberspace based on his theories of evolution. Using his theories as a starting point, Jennifer Cobb asserts that as technical systems become more complex, with simple, predictable mechanisms converging into hierarchies of increasing organization, a point arrives at which something elegant, inspired, and unpredictable simply and suddenly emerges.With daily headlines announcing dizzying advances in science and information technology, many people wonder about their -- and their children's -- ability to lead lives imbued by a sense of the sacred. Convergence offers paradoxical evidence that our machines may be conduits to a deeper spirituality.
Author: Jennifer Cobb
Format: Hardback, 258 pages, 159mm x 229mm, 431 g
Published: 1998, Random House USA Inc, United States
Genre: Christianity: General
The question of whether we can find spiritual life in cyberspace is beginning to be asked. Convergence is a thought -provoking, affirmative answer to one of the most intriguing inquiries of our time.According to the prevailing view, an unbridgeable schism separates the world of the spirit and that of the machine. According to an increasingly compelling idea known as emergence, however, the gulf may be an imaginary one. Fifty years ago, Jesuit paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin combined his lifelong passions of God and science to predict the arrival of cyberspace based on his theories of evolution. Using his theories as a starting point, Jennifer Cobb asserts that as technical systems become more complex, with simple, predictable mechanisms converging into hierarchies of increasing organization, a point arrives at which something elegant, inspired, and unpredictable simply and suddenly emerges.With daily headlines announcing dizzying advances in science and information technology, many people wonder about their -- and their children's -- ability to lead lives imbued by a sense of the sacred. Convergence offers paradoxical evidence that our machines may be conduits to a deeper spirituality.