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Are humans unique? | CMF National Conference 2026
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Ever-accelerating AI capabilities raise the question of what it means to be human. What exactly are human beings? Are we advanced apes? Are we machines? Are we souls confined to a body?
In this plenary session, Sharon Dirckx helped us to consider questions of core human identity from the perspectives of philosophy, theology, and neuroscience.