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Brandon Rickabaugh

Brandon Rickabaugh is founder and director of NOVUS Initiative. He writes and speaks at the intersection of philosophy of mind, technology, and spiritual formation. Rickabaugh is co-author of The Substance of Consciousness (Wiley-Blackwell, 2023) and recipient of the 2025 Dallas Willard Book Award. He is completing a book on unified consciousness, unity of the human person, and the impossibility of AI consciousness, to be published by Bloomsbury.

A Poverty of Soul in Technological Abundance

AI companionship, depersonalization, and the misidentification of spiritual formation.

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