Melding Intellectual Inquiry and Noetic Knowing
An author who brings empirical evidence into conversation with analytical, intuitive, and experiential ways of encountering and understanding the world.
When the metaverse is well established and in use, might we face challenges even more profound than those we face today with AI and social media—when our devices are embedded in our bodies and the world we perceive is increasingly filtered through digitally influenced minds?
— Rosalyn W. Berne, PhD
Walking on the Sea
A Novel
(Currently seeking publication. )
On a climate-ravaged Nantucket, a woman defies an emerging artificial intelligence that governs the island’s future—and risks everything to protect a child whose very existence challenges the boundaries of human freedom, love, and what it means to be alive.
By Rosalyn W. Berne
(Artwork for Walking on the Sea by Kaia Otstak)
About Rosalyn
Rosalyn Berne is an author and scholar exploring the intersections of ethics, science, technology, consciousness, and the more-than-human world. With a PhD in Religious Studies-Bioethics, she writes creative nonfiction, speculative and historical fiction, and academic scholarship. Across these forms, her work brings intellectual inquiry into conversation with noetic knowing—analytical, intuitive, and experiential ways of encountering and understanding the world.
An intuitive interspecies communicator, Rosalyn is particularly attuned to equines and cetaceans.
“There’s not much that can be done at this point to slow the rapid development and evolution of AI. Its benefits have become apparent.
And its market potential is far too attractive to investors.
What we can—and ought to—do, quickly, is guide its development with ethical principles and infuse it with values we still hold dear as human beings: honesty, integrity, empathy, care for one another, and love.”
— Rosalyn W. Berne, Ph.D
The Consciousness of Life
Increasingly, scholars are documenting the communicative capacities of non-human animals, challenging long-held assumptions about the boundaries between species. Yet many humans have long known—and practiced—ways of exchanging thoughts, feelings, and needs with other beings. What is being newly recognized by science may, for others, be an ancient or lived form of knowing.
Sometimes I worry.
At other times I am in awe.
I only hope that this will be a life-giving world for our grandchildren, and that in some small way my writing will contribute to a future in which life can flourish.
— Rosalyn W. Berne, Ph.D
Mind, Heart, Hands
All three are engaged in my writing process. The meditative, rhythmic spinning of my wheel, as the wool moves through my hands, brings clarity and focus to my words and opens my heart to the flow of life.
