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as in recent years. In China as in the West, there has always been some tension between the legacies of tradition and the calls for progress. The contributions of this section offer two instances of a different nature. In the first, John Moffat, Catholic Chaplain at the University of Oxford, grounds his reflections on the conversations he had with three scientists. He explores the state of the dialogue between Christian faith and contemporary science, including human sciences, and shows how beneficial it is for both to deepen the use of “reason”, the Logos so dear to Biblical traditions. From a quite different background, Nicholas G. Carr, renowned author in the debate surrounding the use of the Internet worldwide, analyses what hidden influence the search engines available on the Net, like Google, might have on the human way of thinking and the consequences of it. If the risk is to imitate artificial intelligence, as some informatician conceptors would like to achieve, can we dispense with the quest for meaning? This is a contemporary question.
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