310 - Annie Crawford - C.S. Lewis on Progress, AI, and Gender

I had a great discussion with Annie Crawford. She’s written two wonderful articles for the Symbolic World Blog and is offering a course on C.S. Lewis’ Ransom Trilogy on the Symbolic World website. Check out our discussion about C.S. Lewis, AI, progress, gender, laughter, science, and the mystical.Sign up for Annie’s course on the C.S. Lewis Ransom Trilogy. If you sign up now you will get the recordings of the first 10 lessons. The remaining 5 lessons on That Hideous Strength will be every Friday at 3pm CST / 4pm EST: https://the-symbolic-world.circle.so/checkout/cs-lewis-trilogyEmail us at [email protected] if you have any questions or reach out to Annie in our website community: https://the-symbolic-world.circle.so/home Annie’s articles on the Symbolic World Blog:- ‘Cosmos’: A Poetic Reflection on the Medieval Model: https://thesymbolicworld.com/content/cosmos-a-poetic-reflection-on-the-medieval-model- Gender and the Cosmos: The Restoration of Worlds in C.S. Lewis’s Ransom Trilogy: https://thesymbolicworld.com/content/gender-and-the-cosmos-the-restoration-of-worlds-in-c-s-lewis-s-ransom-trilogyTimestamps:0:00 Coming up0:27 - Intro music0:51 - Introduction3:21 - The Symbolic World community4:22 - C.S. Lewis' Ransom Trilogy6:14 - The disembodied head7:20 - Gender and C.S. Lewis13:31 - C.S. Lewis' approach to the topic17:41 - The "third gender"24:04 - The ending of "That Hideous Strength"31:46 - Waters above and below33:39 - Lewis and Dante39:44 - Theology and "science"46:31 - Barfield and Lewis: an original unity53:30 - Merlin's Last Laugh