by Dr Roland Chia | Jan 1, 2024 | Special Articles
Digital Immortality? Mind Uploading and the quest for everlasting life ¿Inmortalidad digital? La transferencia mental y la búsqueda de la vida eterna Abstract The quest for immortality is probably as old as humankind itself. In recent decades a group of...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jan 1, 2024 | Credo
Credo 1 January 2024 “And he who was seated on the throne said, ‘Behold, I am making all things new.'” (Revelation 21:5) Our world at the beginning of 2023 is pretty much the same as it was at the end of 2022. It is a world that continues to be...
by Bishop Emeritus Dr Robert M. Solomon | Jan 1, 2024 | Feature
Feature 1 January 2024 The acronym CRISPR (pronounced Crisper) in full is a mouthful: Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats. In simple terms, it has to do with editing DNA using RNA and Cas9 (enzyme), a technique discovered from studying how...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jan 1, 2024 | Pulse
Pulse 1 January 2024 On 30 November 2022, the San Francisco based OpenAI and creator of DALL.E2 and Whisper AI launched ChatGPT, a form of generative AI that has the ability to produce new or original content. Drawing from a large data network comprising various...
by Dr Roland Chia | Dec 21, 2023 | Pulse
Pulse 21 December 2023 On 18 December 2023, the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith published a Declaration entitled Fiducia Supplicans (‘Supplicating Trust’), and subtitled ‘On the Pastoral Meaning of Blessings.’ The document was signed by Cardinal...