Ontology 101

Send a text Episode 1 – “You’re Already Becoming Someone” In this opening episode, the AI hosts introduce Tending the Garden: Rebuilding Moral Infrastructure in a Fractured World by J. Daniel Alejos — a work at the crossroads of theology, psychology, and philosophy that maps the hidden architecture of how identity and morality are formed. The hosts  invite listeners to explore what it means to be...

Send a text In this episode, the AI hosts continue their exploration of Tending the Garden by J. Daniel Alejos, turning to Chapter One: The Innate Sense of Morality. This discussion digs into one of Alejos’ most foundational claims — that morality isn’t invented or negotiated, but recognized. Beneath culture, language, and opinion, there exists an “invisible ought,” an internal compass that quietl...

Send a text In this episode, the AI hosts return to Tending the Garden by J. Daniel Alejos to unpack Chapter Two: The Importance of Oughts . Picking up from the prior discussion on humanity’s innate moral compass, the hosts explore what happens when a culture abandons the word “should.” Alejos argues that our sense of obligation — the awareness that some things ought to be done — isn’t a social co...

Send a text In this episode, the AI hosts continue their journey through J. Daniel Alejos’ Tending the Garden with Chapter Three — Broken Compasses: The Limitations of Subjective Morality. After establishing that morality is real and that “ought” gives meaning to freedom, Alejos turns to a sobering question: what if our inner compass is off? The hosts explore how moral instinct, while powerful, is...

Send a text In this pivotal episode, the AI hosts reach Chapter Four of Tending the Garden by J. Daniel Alejos — the point where moral philosophy meets its limit. After examining the failures of personal instinct in Broken Compasses , Alejos now asks whether an objective moral framework can be built from within human reason, consensus, or evolution itself. The answer, he argues, is no — because ev...