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Plotinus Aurelius retweeted
Correct. Never read Republic like you're reading Aristotle. The Republic is the work of the soul.
Just concluded teaching Book IV of the Republic. I don't know how Socrates could be much clearer: the model of the city is a phantom, a shadow, an image. The reality is that justice is primarily about order in the soul. Eat your heart out, Popper.
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Theaetetus for the win
Intelligence must draw on memory. The mind must not simply compile data — as an algorithm now does more quickly than we can — but recall lived experiences, which contain depths of meaning that only the human soul can recognize, and connect more deeply with the goodness of these experiences. Everything that is good begins “with the Spirit” and thus possesses a breath, a dynamism and a sense of communion that, once experienced, are engraved upon the heart. vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…
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Plotinus Aurelius retweeted
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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