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Metaverse & Embodiment

Bodies, presence, and the incarnation in a virtual world. What we lose when gathering goes digital.

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01The incarnation dignifies the body, virtual presence is not the same as presence.

02Personhood has capacities a simulation cannot hold.

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EP 2May 24, 2022

Can we be fully present in a virtual world? A look at the metaverse through embodiment, the incarnation, and what actually makes us persons.

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EP 56Oct 4, 2024

Meta's Orion glasses point past AR to a deeper bet about mediated reality, and what motivates the company building it.

EP 44Jan 30, 2024

From CES 2024, the hosts look past chatbots to embodied AI and robots, and ask how Jesus would meet a machine with a body.

EP 40Nov 14, 2023

Jake Meador on industrial and digital revolutions, the choices they foreclose, and recovering embodied life together.

EP 38Oct 18, 2023

Ian Harber joins to weigh AI companions, a fragmenting internet, and what is real when the feed is full of bots.

EP 36Sep 19, 2023

Samuel James argues the internet is not just a tool but a set of liturgies quietly forming what we desire.

EP 29Jun 6, 2023

Apple's Vision Pro promises a new kind of presence. Does spatial computing connect us, or quietly isolate us? A first Christian read.

EP 28May 30, 2023

Humanoid robots are quietly arriving. The hosts on labor, the body, and what it means to love God with our strength when machines have hands.

EP 17Dec 23, 2022