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Global Order and Geopolitics

Spirituality Has No Owner

The pope’s visit revives a debate over secularism, religious authority, and the freedom of conscience in a shared civic space. Spirituality Has No OwnerSecularism, Religion, and Freedom of Conscience Ahead of the Pope’s VisitBy Santiago H. Pereira Testa The pope’s upcoming visit to Uruguay has revived a discussion that should be addressed clearly.The problem does […]

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Person contemplating two symbolic paths representing conscious human evolution in the age of artificial intelligence.
Global Order and Geopolitics

When Evolution Becomes Conscious: The Challenge of Directing Our Own Development

From classical philosophy to artificial intelligence, a reflection on the transition from unconscious evolution to humanity’s conscious responsibility for its own development. When Evolution Becomes Conscious: An Interpretation of the Human Process I begin from the conviction that there is a law of evolution that manifests itself inexorably in nature, in life, and in human

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Older person facing a stronger intruder from inside a home, illustrating physical vulnerability and the right to self-defence
Global Order and Geopolitics

The Violence We Condemn—and the Violence We Glorify

States were born through armed conflict, enshrined their victors, and still decide which violence becomes heroism and which becomes crime Civilisation is often presented as the overcoming of violence.Yet societies did not eliminate violence.They organised it, regulated it and established who could legitimately exercise it.Many countries were born from wars, conquests, revolutions or struggles for

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Global Order and Geopolitics

Artificial Intelligence Is Redefining Human Progress

A amplificação da inteligência humana transforma a Evolução Consciente, proposta décadas atrás por Carlos Bernardo González Pecotche, em um desafio estratégico para a civilização do século XXI. Artificial Intelligence Is Redefining Human ProgressBy Santiago H. Pereira Testa For thousands of years, human progress consisted of expanding our ability to transform the world.Stone tools, agriculture, writing,

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Aviation investigators examining an aircraft accident as a metaphor for learning from corporate failure.
Global Order and Geopolitics

Conexión Ganadera: The Investigation Uruguay Never Conducts

While the courts determine legal responsibility, Uruguay once again misses the opportunity to learn from one of the largest corporate failures in its recent history. Conexión Ganadera: The Investigation Uruguay Never Conducts While the courts determine legal responsibility, Uruguay is once again missing the opportunity to learn from one of the largest corporate failures in

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Global Order and Geopolitics

The Knowledge No AI Can Truly Teach

Technology has democratized access to information, but some forms of knowledge still depend on experiences that no machine can live for us. The Knowledge Without ScarsWe have never learned so much.It has never been so easy to learn. Yet perhaps we have never asked ourselves such an important question.We are living through the greatest revolution

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Global Order and Geopolitics

Reading the Bible Without Faith

Beyond dogma and modern rejection, biblical stories may reveal enduring patterns about knowledge, power, guilt, decay and human nature. The Bible Analyzed Beyond the Question of Faith For centuries, humanity discussed the Bible from two opposing positions.Some defended it as absolute sacred truth.Others rejected it as a collection of ancient superstitions.However, perhaps both positions share

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Human figure reaching beyond limits toward a blinding light above a modern world, symbolizing hubris and overreach
Global Order and Geopolitics

Hybris: When Systems Stop Recognizing Their Limits

Not all errors begin as errors.Some begin as certainties.The current global landscape reflects signs of that phenomenon.It is not only about wrong decisions.It is about a mode of perception.The conviction that limits no longer exist.The concept of Hybris provides a deeper lens to understand this dynamic.In classical tradition, Hybris is not simply pride.It is excess.The

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Human consciousness facing artificial intelligence in a modern digital city
Global Order and Geopolitics

AI Does Not Threaten Us Because It Thinks Too Much

Magnifica Humanitas rightly warns about technological power, but avoids the decisive question: what kind of human consciousness intends to govern it? The recent encyclical Magnifica Humanitas places the Catholic Church once again within the great contemporary debate on artificial intelligence, technological power and human destiny.The gesture matters.For years, much of religious thought observed the digital

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Mythological Hydra with multiple regenerating heads rising over a modern city, symbolizing problems that escalate when confronted
Ideas and the Transformation of Liberalism

The Hydra Effect: When Solving a Problem Makes It Worse

Not all problems diminish when confronted.Some grow.The current global landscape offers multiple examples of this dynamic.It is not merely about persistent conflicts.It is about situations that intensify as attempts are made to resolve them.The figure of the Hydra provides a clear way to understand this phenomenon.In the myth, each time one of its heads is

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