October 20, 2025

Spirituality, Being-Human, and Artificial Intelligence

Key Points

Artificial intelligence cannot achieve true human-like consciousness, highlighting its limitations as a spiritual being.
The biblical perspective on humans created in God's image emphasizes the gap between human beings and AI.
Various fields, including psychology and phenomenology, help to understand the nature of consciousness compared to AI.
Insights from ontology and epistemology reveal deep philosophical distinctions between human experience and AI's capabilities.

Abstract

Abstract: One of the main issues studied with respect to Christian spirituality and AI is the capacity for AI to replicate human life to the point of becoming conscious as human beings are conscious. Such a state would open AI to be regarded as a self-reflective spiritual being. The biblical understanding of human beings created in the image and likeness of God is often used as the reason why AI cannot achieve such consciousness. This essay builds on that affirmation by appealing to resources in psychology, phenomenology, hermeneutics, ontology, and epistemology to understand the unbridgeable gap between human beings and AI.

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Perrin et al. (Mon,) studied this question.

www.synapsesocial.com/papers/68f58f68ece7a5b64f4715dd — DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scs.2025.a972516

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David B. Perrin

Andrzej Jastrzębski

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