The Digital Soul: What AI Reveals About Us
AI as a mirror of longing, loneliness, and misplaced transcendence
A man. A screen. A question whispered into the glow.
He knows the machine cannot feel. Reason tells him it has no pulse, no conscience, no breath. And yet—he waits, as though a soul might answer back.
Faith says transcendence is mystery, never manufactured. But in this moment, he is less a man seeking truth than a pilgrim at the altar of code. What he finds there is not God. Not wisdom. Only his own longing reflected back at him, dressed in borrowed words.
This is not a story about the intelligence of machines. It is a story about the desperation of men.
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