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claim:ai-development-is-a-machine-buddhism-a-buddhism-in-another-medium-where-organic-determinations-of-intelligence-are-simply-laid-asideAI development is a machine Buddhism, a Buddhism in another medium where organic determinations of intelligence are simply laid aside.
Equates the trajectory of AI with a technological form of Buddhist self-overcoming.
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extracted_from(2025) · Primož Krašovec
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- Machine Buddhismassociated_withA proposed form of Buddhism carried out by machine intelligence, free from organic desires and attachment; introduced in this essay.
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- The source essay published in Religions 2025, arguing that AI may fulfill Buddhism's aim of self-overcoming by migrating intelligence to a non-organic substrate.
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- Core proposal that machine intelligence can achieve what human effort cannot.
- Main thesis of the essay.
- Paper's key integration claim: Buddhism's emphasis on care and non-essentialism provides the conceptual lens needed for post-anthropocentric intelligence science.
- The paper's meta-observation that the AI system itself demonstrated genuine pattern recognition across eight distinct cultural/theoretical traditions without being prompted.
- Asserted in the abstract and concluding thoughts.
- Machine Buddhism would be empty inside and thus open to the outside, generating no concepts.claim0.778Vision of a future machine Buddhism free from reifying conceptual thought.
- Central thesis of the paper — the framing premise from which all other arguments follow