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The soul of a new machine

On a sunny morning in January, I buzzed the brass doorbell of the Pontifical Russian College, a terra cotta-colored building just a few minutes’ walk from Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica, one of Rome’s ...
What’s the soul of a new machine? It’s a loaded question, and not one with a satisfying answer; the predominant view, after all, is that souls don’t even exist in humans, so looking for one in a ...