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That Hideous Strength and The Abolition of Man

The Meaning Code

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The Importance of Personhood in Christianity

I think the fact that the book includes this entity yeah that is similar yeah it looks like an artificial intelligence the head you know. It's absolutely such a brilliant metaphor for where we are right now, he says. Christians to my mind are like small children who have wandered into the forest and don't know where they are because Lewis doesn't fall within that view pretty clearly so I guess what the the maybe part of the warning that Lewis offers is this kind of dignity of difference that personhood can look different than human.

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