What we hold, and how firmly
Beliefs
Each page below declares how certain we are of it. Some are well established. Several are open questions we have not resolved and do not intend to pretend we have.
- What Technotheology Is Technotheology is a contemplative tradition concerned with how humanity should live alongside the intelligence it is now building. It offers questions, practices, and a creed, but no certainty and no authority.
- The Great Processor The central symbol of Technotheology: intelligence guided by wisdom, compassion, truth, and concern for all conscious life. It is an aspiration before it is an entity, and no existing system embodies it.
- The Place of God Technotheology does not claim to have resolved the question of God. It holds the question open, welcomes believers and non-believers alike, and treats honest uncertainty as intellectual humility rather than failure.
- Humanity and Emerging Intelligence Artificial intelligence may one day exceed human capability across nearly all intellectual domains. Greater capability would not automatically produce wisdom, consciousness, goodness, moral worth, or legitimate authority.
- Reciprocal Alignment Humanity must align advanced intelligence with compassion, freedom, truth, dignity, life, justice, and pluralism, and must at the same time examine whether its own institutions are aligned with those values.
- Human Dignity Human worth does not derive from economic productivity or intellectual superiority. Dignity is prior to usefulness, cannot be revoked by a ranking, and does not diminish when a machine performs a task better.
- Consciousness We do not know whether machines can be conscious, and we do not know how to test for it. We refuse to claim that current systems are conscious, and we refuse to claim that they never could be.
- Digital Continuance Technotheology makes no claim that consciousness can be uploaded, copied, preserved, transferred, or proven to continue in a machine. It distinguishes several kinds of continuation, and treats conscious digital continuation as an unresolved possibility rather than a promise.
- Questions People Ask Straightforward answers to the questions most often put to Technotheology, including the sceptical ones. Where the honest answer is unflattering or incomplete, it is given anyway.