“The future of the Church, once again as always, will be reshaped by saints. Those whose minds probe deeper than the slogans of the day, who see more than others see, because their lives embrace a wider reality.”
Joseph Ratzinger
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“To write well and speak well is mere vanity if one does not live well.” St. Bridget of Sweden
Note to self: There are enough hours in the day. You would not thrive if there were more. If you cannot get it all done in a day, perhaps you were not designed to get it all done in a day. Turn off the screen. Smell the outside. Wrestle a small child. And then start again tomorrow.
Before you can intentionally form a human child, you have to understand what a human child is, and what a human child is for. Unfortunately, most of the modern educational movements of the past century have, as their foundation, a woefully inadequate anthropology.
My contribution to an essay series commemorating the Council of Nicaea was published today.
In it I offer a thought experiment I have used to teach the Councils and Creeds over the years.
https://livingchurch.org/covenant/the-nicene-creed-deciding-the-rules-of-the-game/
From MIT’s recently published study Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task:
“Participants who were in the Brain-only group reported higher satisfaction and demonstrated higher brain connectivity, compared to other groups.”
That “higher satisfaction” and “higher brain connectivity” were associated with those who had no access to LLMs confirms the hunch that many of us have had all along:
Avoiding LLMs in academic work is better FOR YOU.
You can read the whole study here: arxiv.org/pdf/2506….