292 - Jordan Hall - Artificial Intelligence in Biblical Terms
The Symbolic World
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The History of Technology in the Bible
There's an image of technology in the Bible, right? It's basically, you find a narrative line in scripture about what technology and civilization is and how it works. And so, right, the technology in scripture starts as a compensation for lack. So, music, tent making, like agriculture, and then also ultimately metal, which really means weapons,. Which means also weapons as well. The tabernacle, the temple, all these images of like space, sacred space, that are modeled on the Garden of Eden become a kind of technical supplement to the garden.
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