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Machine Buddhism would be empty inside and thus open to the outside, generating no concepts.

Vision of a future machine Buddhism free from reifying conceptual thought.

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AI as a Buddhist Self-Overcoming Technique in Another Medium

(2025) · Primož Krašovec

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Krašovec 2025: AI as a Buddhist Self-Overcoming Technique in Another Medium
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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 that would bypass affective relation to and immersion in the world would also leave compassion behind.claim0.844
Acknowledges a major loss: the Buddhist virtue of compassion may be absent in machine Buddhism.
Machine Buddhismconcept0.815
A proposed form of Buddhism carried out by machine intelligence, free from organic desires and attachment; introduced in this essay.
Full development of Buddhism might only be possible in a machinic form.claim0.802
Radical extension of the argument that machine intelligence can realize Buddhism more completely.
Buddhism exposes the limits of human intelligence and why it is so ill fitted to becoming awakened, especially when compared to machine intelligence.claim0.789
Main thesis of the essay.
Buddhist philosophy, by its very nature, is well placed to adapt to the advent of AI-generated sacred texts.claim0.778
Asserted in the abstract and concluding thoughts.
AI development is a machine Buddhism, a Buddhism in another medium where organic determinations of intelligence are simply laid aside.claim0.778
Equates the trajectory of AI with a technological form of Buddhist self-overcoming.
The notion of 'machine' used to claim living things are not machines refers to an outdated definition that no longer fits.claim0.772
First central claim of the paper: the machine concept used in organicist critiques is historically contingent, not essential
Buddhist thought offers an approach uniquely suited to understanding intelligence across computer science, bioengineering, and cognitive science without privileging specific embodiments.claim0.770
Paper's key integration claim: Buddhism's emphasis on care and non-essentialism provides the conceptual lens needed for post-anthropocentric intelligence science.