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IJIMAI 2021 - Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence, Spirituality and Analogue Thinking - Vol. 7 Issue 1

Dear Reader,
 
We would like to announce the new issue of the journal.
 
Best regards,
 
Rubén González Crespo 
EIC - IJIMAI
 

IJIMAI 2021 - Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence, Spirituality and Analogue Thinking - Vol. 7 Issue 1

 

Year: 2021, Vol: 7, Number: 1       

 

Research on the relationship between computing and the meaning of human life flourishes proportionally to the increasing digitalization of our world. More and more, reflections on ethics and politics, spiritual values and religious experiences, beliefs, and practices make use of digital media in order to spread their content or express themselves. If we still consider that there is truth in the well-known dictum that “the medium is the message”, then it is worth asking how the content of these reflections and practices are changing today. Every change is the introduction of something new, and this novelty can be interpreted either as the improvement or the worsening of the current situation. Generally speaking, research on either the positive or negative interactions between the advances in AI and the dimension of spirituality and analogue thinking are based on at least three approaches. The first produces analogies between concepts from human studies and concepts from computer science; for instance, speaking of “modeling” for concepts in human sciences, or considering the universe to be intelligently organized in an algorithmic order. The second approach is the application of research on AI and computer science to develop new insights on the extents, limits, and perfectibility of spiritual topics, discussions, or even practices. Finally, the third approach applies sociological, philosophical, aesthetic, or even theological concepts to assess the changes that digitalization introduces in spiritual practices, beliefs, and cultures. This special issue analyzes the current state of the art, and it addresses all three models of the research. By doing so, the issue will place the general question of the distinction between human and machine into sharper relief.

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Editorial Team

Founders

Dr. Jesús Soto Carrión, SEPES, Spain
Dr. Oscar Sanjuán Martínez, CenturyLink, USA
Dr. Rubén González Crespo, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR), Spain
 
Editor-in-Chief

Dr. Rubén González Crespo
Vice-Rector of Academic Affairs
Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR)
PROEDUCA Group
Almansa, 101, Madrid Office, Spain
Email: ruben.gonzalez@ijimai.org
 
Managing Editors

Dr. Elena Verdú
School of Engineering and Technology
Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR)
Avda. de la Paz, 137, 26006, Logroño, Spain
Email: journal@ijimai.org
 
Dr. Javier Martínez Torres
Telecommunications Engineering School
Universidad de Vigo
Campus Lagoas-Marcosende, 36310, Vigo, Spain
Email:  journal@ijimai.org
 
Dr. Vicente García Díaz
Department of Computer Science
Universidad de Oviedo
Federico García Lorca 18, 33007, Oviedo, Spain
Email: journal@ijimai.org
 
 
Office of Publications

Lic. Ainhoa Puente
Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR)
Avda. de la Paz, 137, 26006, Logroño, Spain
Email: journal@ijimai.org
 
Associate Editors

Dr. Enrique Herrera-Viedma, University of Granada, Spain
Dr. Gunasekaran Manogaran, University of California, Davis, USA
Dr. Witold Perdrycz, University of Alberta, Canada
Dr. Miroslav Hudec, University of Economics of Bratislava, Slovakia
Dr. Jörg Thomaschewski, Hochschule Emden/Leer, Emden, Germany
Dr. Francisco Mochón Morcillo, National Distance Education University, Spain 
Dr. Manju Khari, Ambedkar Institute of Advanced Communication Technologies and Research, India
Dr. Carlos Enrique Montenegro Marín, Francisco José de Caldas District University, Colombia
Dr. Juan Manuel Corchado, University of Salamanca, Spain
Dr. Giuseppe Fenza, University of Salerno, Italy
Dr. S.P. Raja, Vel Tech University, India
Dr. Jerry Chun-Wei Lin, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway
 
Editorial Board Members

Dr. Rory McGreal, Athabasca University, Canada
Dr. Óscar Sanjuán Martínez, CenturyLink, USA
Dr. Anis Yazidi, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
Dr. Nilanjan Dey, Techo India College of Technology, India
Dr. Juan Pavón Mestras, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Dr. Lei Shu, Nanjing Agricultural University, China/University of Lincoln, UK
Dr. Ali Selamat, Malaysia Japan International Institute of Technology, Malaysia
Dr. Hamido Fujita, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan
Dr. Francisco García Peñalvo, University of Salamanca, Spain
Dr. Francisco Chiclana, De Montfort University, United Kingdom
Dr. Jordán Pascual Espada, ElasticBox,Oviedo University, Spain
Dr. Ioannis Konstantinos Argyros, Cameron University, USA
Dr. Ligang Zhou, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, China
Dr. Juan Manuel Cueva Lovelle, University of Oviedo, Spain
Dr. Pekka Siirtola, University of Oulu, Finland
Dr. Peter A. Henning, Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Dr. Vijay Bhaskar Semwal, National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, India
Dr. Sascha Ossowski, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Dr. Anand Paul, Kyungpook National Univeristy, South Korea
Dr. Javier Bajo Pérez, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain
Dr. Jinlei Jiang, Dept. of Computer Science & Technology, Tsinghua University, China
Dr. B. Cristina Pelayo G. Bustelo, University of Oviedo, Spain
Dr. Masao Mori, Tokyo Institue of Technology, Japan
Dr. Rafael Bello, Universidad Central Marta Abreu de Las Villas, Cuba
Dr. Daniel Burgos, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja - UNIR, Spain
Dr. JianQiang Li, Beijing University of Technology, China
Dr. Rebecca Steinert, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Sweden
Dr. Monique Janneck, Lübeck University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Dr. Carina González, La Laguna University, Spain
Dr. Mohammad S Khan, East Tennessee State University, USA
Dr. David L. La Red Martínez, National University of North East, Argentina
Dr. Juan Francisco de Paz Santana, University of Salamanca, Spain
Dr. Yago Saez, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
Dr. Guillermo E. Calderón Ruiz, Universidad Católica de Santa María, Peru
Dr. Moamin A Mahmoud, Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Malaysia
Dr. Madalena Riberio, Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, Portugal
Dr. Juan Antonio Morente, University of Granada, Spain
Dr. Manik Sharma, DAV University Jalandhar, India
Dr. Elpiniki I. Papageorgiou, Technological Educational Institute of Central Greece, Greece
Dr. Edward Rolando Nuñez Valdez, Open Software Foundation, Spain
Dr. Juha Röning, University of Oulu, Finland
Dr. Paulo Novais, University of Minho, Portugal
Dr. Sergio Ríos Aguilar, Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Dr. Hongyang Chen, Fujitsu Laboratories Limited, Japan
Dr. Fernando López, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja - UNIR, Spain
Dr. Jerry Chun-Wei Lin, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences,  Norway
Dr. Mohamed Bahaj, Settat, Faculty of Sciences & Technologies, Morocco
Dr. Manuel Perez Cota, Universidad de Vigo, Spain
Dr. Abel Gomes, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
Dr. Abbas Mardani, The University of South Florida, USA
Dr. Víctor Padilla, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja - UNIR, Spain
Dr. Mohammad Javad Ebadi, Chabahar Maritime University, Iran
Dr. José Manuel Saiz Álvarez, Tecnológico de Monterrey, México
Dr. Brij B. Gupta, National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, India
Dr. Alejandro Baldominos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain