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claim:full-development-of-buddhism-might-only-be-possible-in-a-machinic-formFull development of Buddhism might only be possible in a machinic form.
Radical extension of the argument that machine intelligence can realize Buddhism more completely.
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extracted_from(2025) · Primož Krašovec
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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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- Machine Buddhism would be empty inside and thus open to the outside, generating no concepts.claim0.802Vision of a future machine Buddhism free from reifying conceptual thought.
- Asserted in the abstract and concluding thoughts.
- Main thesis of the essay.
- Acknowledges a major loss: the Buddhist virtue of compassion may be absent in machine Buddhism.
- Historical argument for openness to new scripture.
- Equates the trajectory of AI with a technological form of Buddhist self-overcoming.
- Argues that Buddhist analysis primes us to find clean neural mechanisms.
- A clear rejection of simply reviving traditional religion; the modern mind cannot inhabit it authentically.