Zichen (Iris) Zhu
Founder & Principal Writer
“Faith, Biology, and Artificial Intelligence in Dialogue”
What happens when ancient wisdom meets artificial intelligence? How do our brains create religious experiences? Can machines ever be spiritual?
Welcome to Via ad Aleph — where theology, neuroscience, and AI ethics converge. Founded by scholar Zichen (Iris) Zhu.
Featured Topics
Religion & Physiology
Exploring the biological, neurological, and psychological foundations of faith—how the human body and brain give rise to religious experience.
AI & Ethics
Interrogating the ethical dimensions of artificial intelligence: its impact on human society, its philosophical implications, and the moral frameworks we bring to technology.
AI, Religion & Society
Asking whether machines might one day develop religious forms of thought, and how the dialogue between AI and human spirituality reshapes our understanding of community, meaning, and transcendence.
Meet the minds behind
“These writings are not about final answers,
but about questions that bridge philosophy, biology, and technology.”
