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Embracing a More Human Future
How reclaiming leisure, reshaping economies, and renewing human skills can turn AI disruption into abundant renewal.
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Taylor T Black
Human Knowing and Machine Learning: Aquinas, Lonergan, and Statistical Intelligence
A deep comparative study for Thomists, Lonerganians, and AI theorists exploring how human knowing both parallels and diverges from artificial knowing…
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Taylor T Black
Friendships of Virtue in an Age of “Whatever”
Aristotle on Friendship: Pleasure, Utility, and Virtue
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Ready Player Two – How I Use AI as an Adversarial Thought Partner
Reflections on a Year Spent Sparring with AI as an Adversarial Thought Partner—And Wondering Whether Polymathic, Agentic Orchestration Might Become a…
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Taylor T Black

April 2025

Lonergan, Natural Law, and the End of Relativism
How Bernard Lonergan’s Transcendental Method Reveals a Universal Moral Grounding Beyond Relativism
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Taylor T Black
Outsourcing Cognition: AI’s Disruption of the Human Cognitive Cycle
How Excessive Reliance on AI Risks Undermining Our Capacity for Insight, Judgment, and Responsible Action—and How to Restore the Balance
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Taylor T Black
Predictive Embodiment
Understanding the embodied intelligence by which the human person actively anticipates, reveals, and co-constructs personal identity and relational…
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Taylor T Black
Toward a Deeper Science of Progress
How a Deeper Understanding of Human Cognition, Moral Development, and Collaborative Inquiry Can Ground a More Coherent, Cumulative, and Ethically…
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Taylor T Black
Tech, Happiness, and the Search for Meaning
Building AI for the Whole Person
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Taylor T Black
The Human Advantage: Liberal Arts and Personal Formation in the AI Age
In the summer of 2024, I found myself sipping coffee with an old college friend, debating what our kids should study.
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Reinventing Higher Education in the Age of AI
or, The Rise of the Modern Polymath: How AI is Reviving the Renaissance Ideal in Higher Education
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March 2025

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