If the Enlightenment was a revolution in thinking, the survival of the human species may well depend on a revolution in imagination. This revolution would not center reason and mastery, but interdependence, care and the capacity to imagine otherwise. It would demand that we challenge what we think is possible, not through extrapolation, but through... See more

The time for a broadened, or expanded, sense of reason—far broader than generative A.I. will ever achieve—is upon us. It’s time to shed the shackles of secular humanism and walk boldly into a future where the human spirit is not contained in a Twitter-shaped box in which Lex Fridman wonders out loud whether or not he’s real or an avatar.