Graduate Student, Religious Studies
Phd candidate
College of Humanities and Social Science
Thesis Title: Re-inventing Ourselves: Alan Turing, the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence and the meaning of Spirituality
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Dr. Steven Sutcliffe
Dr. Michael Fuller |
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My doctoral thesis is concerned with the etymology of spirituality, the religious landscape and the formation of 'human being' in the West.
It focuses on how science and technology, in particular artificial intelligence and human enhancement technologies change how we conceptualise who and what we are, and the broader social, political and cultural impact such change brings onto humanities. I am interested in our self-transforming capacity based on a creative and reflexive self-knowledge, which seems to me key to our sense of identity. In other words, 'human being' is best captured as 'human becoming' as Bergson would say.
I am also interested in the religious landscape in East and Southeast Asia, in particular the phenomenon of "underground church" in China, the notion of neo-colonialism, and Chinese diaspora in Britain.
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