Writing / Media
The public platform is new. The intellectual background is not.
Rodney’s current books, Incandescence work and developing AI & Society inquiry mark a new public chapter. Interviews and conversations can follow either strand, or explore where consciousness, authority and human judgement bring them into contact.
Short bio
Rodney Ashfield
Rodney Ashfield is a Canadian author, entrepreneur and creator of Sacred Ideas in Our Material Universe and the Incandescence Initiative. Educated in psychology, religious studies and philosophy, with later professional education in acquired brain injury rehabilitation and pedorthics, he writes about religion after certainty, consciousness, artificial intelligence, meaning and human judgement in a material universe. His developing AI & Society inquiry examines AI research, its societal implications and the unresolved question of machine inner experience.
Media information
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Good conversation topics
Religion after certainty · Incandescence · God or Nature · sacred practice · Christianity after certainty.
AI research and society · capability and consciousness · human judgement and accountability · AI-mediated research and the limits of oversight.
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Earlier speaking
Earlier presentations included a disability-oriented conference in Hawaii on distance education, community and religious audiences, and talks on a diverse range of subjects. Much of this work predates today’s online media environment.
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