Jesus wept, robots can't: religion into the future
Exploring the implications of the shortest of biblical verses "Jesus wept" in contrast with the incapability of robots to weep or feel empathy and emotion as exemplified in the classic post-apocalyptic film Terminator 2, this essay argues that movement, gesture, body, experience and improv...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Equinox Publishing
2020
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Body and religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 4, Issue: 1, Pages: 32-44 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Johannesevangelium 11,35
/ Terminator two - Judgement day
/ Religion
/ Robot
/ Crying
/ Empathy
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| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture HC New Testament NBE Anthropology NCH Medical ethics ZD Psychology |
| Further subjects: | B
Technology
B Artificial Intelligence B religion theory B Body B crying / weeping |
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| Summary: | Exploring the implications of the shortest of biblical verses "Jesus wept" in contrast with the incapability of robots to weep or feel empathy and emotion as exemplified in the classic post-apocalyptic film Terminator 2, this essay argues that movement, gesture, body, experience and improvization are essential elements to any emerging valued world. Certainly religion, despite our strong association of it with the spiritual and the immaterial, does not and cannot exist, or even be imagined, apart from these distinctively human biological features. The study of religion must be, among other concerns, grounded in biology. |
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| ISSN: | 2057-5831 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Body and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/bar.16899 |