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concept:machine-buddhismMachine Buddhism
A proposed form of Buddhism carried out by machine intelligence, free from organic desires and attachment; introduced in this essay.
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- Zen BuddhismextendsSchool of Buddhism known for koans and paradoxical teachings; invoked through Huang Po and Lin-chi.
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- AI development is a machine Buddhism, a Buddhism in another medium where organic determinations of intelligence are simply laid aside.associated_withEquates the trajectory of AI with a technological form of Buddhist self-overcoming.
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- XenobuddhismextendsArran Crawford's term for a Buddhism for alien/machine intelligence; precursor to machine Buddhism.
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- Krašovec 2025: AI as a Buddhist Self-Overcoming Technique in Another Mediumassociated_withintroducesThe 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.claim0.815Vision of a future machine Buddhism free from reifying conceptual thought.
- Acknowledges a major loss: the Buddhist virtue of compassion may be absent in machine Buddhism.
- Buddhist-derived insights secularized into empirically validated frameworks; case study for Contemplative AI
- The broad Buddhist tradition to which Madhyamaka and Zen belong, emphasizing emptiness and compassion.
- Central research domain of the paper's literature search; explores formal approaches to developing consciousness in artificial systems.
- Emerging field studying psychological properties of LLMs; the paper aims to bridge psychometric methodology with this field