AI chatbots can produce documents, but do they write? This workshop provides a phenomenology of the human writing process highlighting how writing is primarily a process (and only secondarily a product) and primarily for communication rather than documentation. This workshop focuses on the intra-personal communication occurring in the writer’s embodied consciousness. Analogies will be drawn from contemplative spiritualities to help both students and teachers of writing develop the quality of this intra-personal communication at the heart of the writing process. Finally, some attention will be paid to how this intra-personal communication is, as both personal and intelligent, always already interpersonal.
Jonathan Heaps, PhD, is the Director of the Bernard J. Lonergan Institute at Seton Hall University and the author of The Ambiguity of Being: Lonergan and the Problems of the Supernatural (CUA Press, 2024).
