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Archetypes, Algorithms and AI: Finding the Deeply Human in a Posthuman Age
March 15, 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT
Glen Slater’s new book, Jung vs. Borg: Finding the Deeply Human in a Posthuman Age, describes the collision between the archetypal basis of psychological life and the algorithmic architecture of the online world. This collision is not only disrupting our inner ecology in a way that mirrors the disruption of outer ecology, it is opening the door to the posthuman goal of merging human and artificial intelligence (AI).
This lecture will set out critical areas of understanding that help us enter and reflect on this potentially radical turn in human evolution. It will particularly emphasize Jung’s insights into the dissociative and integrative dynamics of the psyche. We will consider how the arc of his psychology not only provides us with ways to comprehend the evident deficits of the digital lifestyle, it helps us conceptualize processes and values necessary for individual and societal well-being as we make our way forward.
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GLEN SLATER, PH.D., was born and raised in Australia. He moved to the United States in 1992 to study Jungian psychology. He has degrees in Religious Studies and Clinical Psychology and has taught for over 25 years at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California, where he is Co-Chair of the Jungian and Archetypal Studies Program. He has written extensively for Jungian publications and edited the third volume of James Hillman’s Uniform Edition, Senex and Puer, as well as the essay collection, Varieties of Mythic Experience. He writes on Jung and film, the psychology of religion, and depth psychology and technology. His long-awaited book, Jung vs. Borg: Finding the Deeply Human in a Posthuman Age, will be published in January 2024.
