In Lawrence Lek's proposal an emerging artificial intelligence — a computer -
generated ghost in the machine — discovers its own autonomy, and ponders the range and limits of its post-human powers of creativity.
It's more important because, as Hart rightly diagnoses, the modern mind is trapped
in various false dichotomies — like thinking one has to be a personal theist or an anti-theist, or that the human person is either a
ghost in a
machine or a
machine -
generating ghost — and these false dichotomies themselves make it impossible for us to think rationally about topics such as natural law.