"energivorous and lifeless repositories of the creative products of our true[ly] intellectual activity"

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"The machines dubbed ‘artificial[ly] intelligent’ are the energivorous and lifeless repositories of the creative products [(résultats formulés)] of our true[ly] intellectual activity, which they [do no more than simply] recombine ad infinitum.  They lack only the essential thing:  [admiration.]  'Admiration issues in the quest, and the quest attains to understanding,' writes Isaac of Stella in his Letter on the soul.  Abiding at the edge of the world, [human] intelligence is the sentinel that mounts a watch and keeps vigil in the presence of all the mysteries.  Let admiration and wonder in the face of [such] escape [(désertent)] our regard, and the source of all knowledge will be dried up.  Let them, on the contrary, continue to shimmer [before us ((à y briller))], and our fascination with machines [like these], however advanced, will melt away like snow in the sunshine."

     Laure Soignac, "Irréductible intelligence:  les leçons du Moyen Âge," Communio:  revue internationale catholique 50, no. 5 =301 (septembre-octobre 2025):  111 (97-111).