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Buddhist thought offers an approach uniquely suited to understanding intelligence across computer science, bioengineering, and cognitive science without privileging specific embodiments.

Paper's key integration claim: Buddhism's emphasis on care and non-essentialism provides the conceptual lens needed for post-anthropocentric intelligence science.

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Biology, Buddhism, and AI: Care as the Driver of Intelligence

(2022) · Doctor, Thomas · Witkowski, Olaf · Solomonova, Elizaveta · Duane, Bill +1

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Collective intelligence & distributed cognition
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All minds are composites of parts; individual and collective intelligence unified under substrate-neutral principles.
Substrate-independent cognition & consciousness
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Gradualist, substrate-neutral frameworks extending cognition and sentience across biological and artificial networks.
Non-dual consciousness frameworks for artificial minds
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Buddhist and mystical phenomenology applied to consciousness in synthetic systems, bridging AI ethics without substrate assumptions.

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Basal Cognition
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An interdisciplinary research framework that reconceptualizes intelligence as observer-relative problem-solving competencies existing on a continuum from simple to highly complex, extending cognition beyond neural systems to pre-neural and non-neural substrates including microbial control loops, plants, tissues, and cellular collectives. It grounds the study of evolutionary and developmental origins of cognitive and behavioral capacities by linking information processing at the chemical and cellular level to classical cognition, and provides philosophical foundations for understanding agency and goal-directedness in systems without nervous systems.

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Buddhist philosophy, by its very nature, is well placed to adapt to the advent of AI-generated sacred texts.claim0.835
Asserted in the abstract and concluding thoughts.
Buddhist epistemological tradition is full of warnings against mistaking reality as given in our perception for actual reality, valuable for AI designers.claim0.832
Highlights the practical relevance of Buddhism to AI development.
Buddhism exposes the limits of human intelligence and why it is so ill fitted to becoming awakened, especially when compared to machine intelligence.claim0.822
Main thesis of the essay.
AI might be a solution to an ancient Buddhist paradox of how the human can be overcome by human means.claim0.799
Core proposal that machine intelligence can achieve what human effort cannot.
Intelligence and cognition exist on a continuum; modern bioscience offers no support for clean bright-line distinctions between cognitive and non-cognitive beings.claim0.792
Anti-essentialism claim: questions like 'is it cognitive?' are scientifically unjustified; modern view must ask 'what kind' and 'how much'.
AI development is a machine Buddhism, a Buddhism in another medium where organic determinations of intelligence are simply laid aside.claim0.791
Equates the trajectory of AI with a technological form of Buddhist self-overcoming.
Mahāyāna Buddhist thoughtframework0.791
Buddhist tradition emphasizing distributed selfhood and identity as co-constituted by interactions with others; ethical foundation for inquiry.
The Bodhisattva cognitive system, through non-dual insight, engages with spontaneous care for all apparent individuals.claim0.788
Describes the post-insight state of Bodhisattva cognition.

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