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With technological advancement, AI tends to turn more human while humans tend to turn more artificial or virtual. The gradual convergence between these two apparently distinct entities leads us to revisit the problems of identity. Human consciousness evolves in decreasing participation towards final participation. As humans are becoming more abstract and rationalist, AI is becoming more concrete and human. This essay attempts to review human identity vis-à-vis AI evolution from the perspective of materialism and that of narrative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the probable origin of Taiwan aborigines' unique vision of evil and their rationalization through the mediation of myths and concomitant ethical norms and taboos. We apply Paul Ricoeur's theory of evil and threefold mimesis in order to analyze in a systematic manner the imaginary of evil, which could be rooted in the conception of human mortality. The study sheds light on the cosmological nature of Formosans' attributing of evil while bringing to light the fundamental difference in conceiving evil between Christian and non-Christian cultures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]