Mohammad Javad Rezaei

SUBJECT & OBJECTIVES: With the development of technology, it is expected that artificial intelligence will be able to analyze models of emotional relationships, such as love, and respond to users’ requests to create a personalized intelligent beloved with a physical body; a phenomenon named in this study as Intelligent Artificial Beloved (IAB). It can be designed and used as a dedicated companion aligned with the characteristics of the human user. The research's main question is: what philosophical and ethical consequences will the development of IAB entail? METHOD & FINDING: The research benefited from a descriptive-analytical method. Notably, this phenomenon has positive and negative consequences. The advantages of IAB include the ability of a personalized intelligent beloved to adapt to an individual’s variable and fluid requests, and expanding the boundaries of realizing ‘human desires’, i.e., the ability to create features in the artificial beloved that cannot occur or be externally realized in natural humans. The following items might be considered as challenges of IAB: 1. Weakening genuine romantic relationships among ‘natural human individuals’ 2. Immersion in an ‘intelligent artificial life’ and weakening the ‘natural lifestyle’ 3. The guidance and management of the ‘wants and lives of romantic users’ by the AI 4. Developing a competitive space between natural and artificial lovers or beloveds. CONCLUSION: Although IAB has advantages, neglecting its philosophical and ethical consequences can overshadow these benefits and cause individual and social harm. Proper cultural awareness and macro-level policymaking can be useful in responsibly managing this phenomenon.

The truth of the human being, according to the theories of Asalat al-Wujud (Primacy of Existence) and Tashkik al-Wujud (Gradation of Existence), is not confined to deterministic or fixed philosophical-logical definitions. In Hikmat-e Mot‘āliyeh (Transcendent Wisdom), the human is a spectral–probabilistic being who has the capacity, in the course of evolution, to actualize all potential faculties and existential domains. The human experiences determination and limits proportional to the diverse existential positions it occupies. These positions vary according to his action, movement, and identity and existential classifications; hence, definitions such as "rational animal"(Ḥayavān-e Nāteq) do not manifest in Hikmat-e Mot‘āliyeh. Based on the spectral biological model, the human is a diverse entity flowing through existential strata. The central question of this research, relying on the principles of Asalat al-Wujud and Tashkik al-Wujud, is: What is a spectral human and how can the quality of abstraction of human diversity be explained on this basis? The research method is descriptive-analytical, and based on the foundations of Hikmat-e Mot‘āliyeh (Transcendent Wisdom), it philosophically elucidates the spectral human theory. This framework demonstrates how the principles of "Primacy of Existence" and "Gradation of Existence" enable the formulation of the human as a spectral being in Sadraean anthropology. For elevating the quality of understanding, conceptual models, propositions, and symbols of mathematical logic are employed.

The architecture of modern research methodologies can take shape as a computational approach, interacting with artificial intelligence. This involves a collaborative inquiry into a specific issue in which the level of intelligence demonstrated by natural language processing (NLP) models is evaluated. This study addresses the issue of human free will in the Qur'an and evaluates the theological intelligence and capabilities of ChatGPT-4.5 across four distinct models and levels. These levels are as follows: Linguistic Layer (LIL): At this level, key terms such as free will, human will, decision, determinism, and divine will are identified and analyzed. A statistical examination of the frequency and distribution of these terms and their related concepts in the Qur’anic text is conducted. Conceptual Layer (COL): In this layer, related concepts of human and divine will are explored, and a semantic network is mapped. Analytical Layer (ANL): Here, AI analyzes the tensions and contrasts between divine determinism and human free will, providing an intertextual resolution. Systemic Layer (SYL): The final layer designs an interaction model that clarifies and resolves the reciprocal relations, leading to a comprehensive and applicable understanding of the relationship between human free will and divine will. Methodologically, the study uses a digital library as its source base and computational prompting techniques to engage the language model. The content is structured within the emerging field of Computational Theology, which encodes theological problems for systematic investigation. The findings indicate that ChatGPT-4.5 demonstrates a high level of accuracy in analyzing the question of free will in the Qur’anic context.

Alienation is one of the subjects studied in religion, philosophy, social sciences, and psychology, referring to the process in which the self of a human is transformed into something other than itself. This research addresses the comparative analysis of this concept across different findings and theories. The research question is the feasibility of constructing a common model for the quality of human alienation and the consequences of this transformation in the afterlife, based on the principles of Transcendent Theosophy, as well as explaining its relationship with the results of other schools of thought. In line with the raised issue, the research question is: Can a comprehensive model, adaptable to the theories of other schools, be established on the basis of philosophical and religious foundations in Transcendent Theosophy to understand the "becoming other" of humanity? How will the outcome and quality of this transformation reflect in the mirror of the afterlife? The keyword "becoming other" in this research refers to the result of the transformative process. The authors argue that alienation is nothing more than the transformation of the human being into another realm (the transformation of the self into the non-self). This keyword is a general concept that can encompass all existential realms, meaning that humans are potentially capable of transforming into all different existential dimensions. The research methodology to find a suitable answer in this study is a comparative and qualitative analysis, with data sourced from a digital library based on computational methods.

Intermarriage is an issue that is scattered among the ontological views and opinions of Muslim mystics and philosophers regarding the quality of the formation of the worlds of existence and marriage of the names and attributes contained in the levels of existence and the results thereof, from the essence of the One to the multiplicity. The attempt of this article is a new perspective, along with an ontological examining of the possibility of the generalization of intermarriage among the types of beings, in an infinite process, called the infinite specific intermarriage. In mystical and philosophical discussions, the species of beings, especially the species of human, cannot be limited to specific states and types; because with intermarriage, these types are transformed into other types or states. The present article aims to answer this question, "is the intermarriage of species up to the point of infinity possible?" And if possible, "what variables are effective in these intermarriages?" It enjoys a qualitative method for the study of variables through library sources, along with an analysis of related opinions, leading to practical results. Some variables also affect each other in an interactive way. The research finding is that these variables, by affecting each other, step by step, will provide the possibility of generalizing species to the infinite specific intermarriage and will support this new attitude.