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Do machines have feelings? AI has philosophers and tech leaders rethinking consciousness.
October 27, 2026
Meghan Sullivan, a philosophy professor at the University of Notre Dame, participated in one of these meetings and left “skeptical that an artificial agent could attain actual moral virtue,” she wrote in a Substack post.
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The Democrat capturing Christian voters in the Trump era
October 26, 2026
When Talarico and Hamilton use religious language, “it really stands out, even though it’s really more of a return to what we’ve seen in the past,” Dave Campbell, a religion and politics scholar at the University of Notre Dame, said. “The trick with religious language is that people from within a religious community, they pick up on the subtleties. Do they really speak the way I do? Do they really understand the world the way I do? And if you don’t really understand those nuances, your rhetoric can come off as not only inauthentic, but even offensive.”
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