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Between disenchantment and re-enchantment : exploring AI as a companion in the inner life
ID Platovnjak, Ivan (Author), ID Brumec, Snežana (Author)

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This article examines the speculative potential of designing a spiritually attuned artificial intelligence platform capable of supporting processes of meaning-making, fostering conditions conducive to emotional resonance, and assisting in the dis-covery of intrinsic values across diverse spiritual orientations. Situated within the socio-cultural context of late modernity—marked by the rationalization of life-worlds, increased individualization, and the erosion of traditional frameworks of meaning—we interpret the renewed emphasis on spirituality, emotional and em-bodied experience, as well as interiority, as indicative of a broader re-engagement with right-hemisphere cognitive modes, as theorized by iain McGilchrist. Rather than conceptualizing ai as a surrogate for spiritual experience or communal be-longing, we explore whether this fundamentally left-hemisphere technological ar-tifact could paradoxically be reconfigured to facilitate holistic perception, existen-tial reflection, and prosocial engagement. acknowledging the ethical complexities and epistemological constraints of such a vision, we propose a theoretical model for a digital interface that does not prescribe, but invites; that does not instruct, but listens. We conclude by posing a critical question: Can artificial intelligence, when sensitively designed, contribute to the re-enchantment of human experi-ence—not by transmitting meaning, but by enabling deeper forms of dialogical presence?

Language:English
Keywords:spirituality, artificial intelligence, right-hemisphere cognition, meaning-making, late modernitiy
Work type:Article
Typology:1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:TEOF - Theological Faculty
Publication status:Published
Publication version:Version of Record
Publication date:18.12.2025
Year:2025
Number of pages:Str. 141-159, 335-336, 347
Numbering:Let. 30, št. 119/120
PID:20.500.12556/RUL-177693 This link opens in a new window
UDC:27-584:004.89
ISSN on article:1318-8828
DOI:10.35469/poligrafi.2025.505 This link opens in a new window
COBISS.SI-ID:262602755 This link opens in a new window
Publication date in RUL:31.12.2025
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Title:Poligrafi : revija za religiologijo, mitologijo in filozofijo
Shortened title:Poligrafi
Publisher:Nova revija, Društvo za primerjalno religiologijo, Nova revija, Društvo za primerjalno religiologijo, Univerza na Primorskem, Znanstveno-raziskovalno središče, Univerzitetna založba Annales, Društvo za primerjalno religiologijo, Znanstveno-raziskovalno središče, Annales ZRS, Društvo za primerjalno religiologijo
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Language:Slovenian
Title:Med odčaranjem in ponovnim očaranjem
Abstract:
Članek proučuje spekulativni potencial oblikovanja duhovno naravnane plat-forme umetne inteligence, ki bi lahko podpirala procese ustvarjanja pomena, omo-gočala pogoje za čustveno resonanco in pomagala pri odkrivanju notranjih vre-dnot znotraj različnih duhovnih usmeritev. Vpet v družbeno-kulturni kontekst poznomodernosti – zaznamovane z racionalizacijo življenjskega sveta, povečano individualizacijo in razpadom tradicionalnega okvira smisla – prispevek razlaga ponoven poudarek na duhovnosti, čustvenih in telesnih izkušnjah ter notranjosti kot znamenja širšega ponovnega približevanja kognitivnim načinom desne mož-ganske polovice, kot jih teoretizira iain McGilchrist. Namesto da bi umetno in-teligenco razumeli kot nadomestek duhovne izkušnje ali občestvene pripadnosti, raziskujemo možnost, da bi se ta izrazito levohemisferski tehnološki artefakt lahko paradoksalno preoblikoval v orodje, ki bi omogočalo celostno zaznavanje, bivanj-sko refleksijo in prosocialno naravnanost. ob upoštevanju etičnih zapletenosti in epistemoloških omejitev take vizije predlagamo teoretični model digitalnega vmesnika, ki ne predpisuje, temveč vabi; ki ne poučuje, temveč posluša. prispevek končamo s kritičnim vprašanjem: ali lahko umetna inteligenca – če je oblikova-na z zadostno občutljivostjo – prispeva k ponovni začaranosti človeške izkušnje, ne tako, da bi dajala smisel, temveč tako, da omogoča globlje oblike dialogične navzočnosti?

Keywords:duhovnost, umetna inteligena, kognicija desne možganske polovice, iskanje smisla, poznomodernost

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Project number:P6-0269-2022
Name:Religija, etika, edukacija in izzivi sodobne družbe

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Project number:J6-60105-2025
Name:Teologija in digitalizacija: antropološki in etični izzivi

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