Renaissance Man 2.0(Science) - Artificial Intelligence: Beyond the Age of Reason

Leonardo Di Vinci’s “Vitruvian Man” is a symbol of the Renaissance, the dawn of our modern era — a time when science, technology and art were inextricably linked, rooted in a vision of humankind at the center of creation and of God’s natural order.  Today, “Renaissance Man 2.0” finds himself not at the center of a divine creation, but at the heart of a digital universe( a meta-verse) of our own making, governed not by natural law, but by a new mysterious power - artificial intelligence.

500 years hence, from the time of Di Vinci, we find ourselves compelled to address the same most salient question as did Leonardo in his day. What does it really mean to be human?