Mahāyāna Buddhist thought

Buddhist tradition emphasizing distributed selfhood and identity as co-constituted by interactions with others; ethical foundation for inquiry.

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Self can be understood as distributed, distributable, and dynamic rather than singular and enduring.
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Core interpretive position synthesizing Buddhist and contemporary cognitive science views; foundational for hypothesis.

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Mahāyāna Buddhist philosophy
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Mahāyāna Buddhism
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The broad Buddhist tradition to which Madhyamaka and Zen belong, emphasizing emptiness and compassion.

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Mahāyāna Buddhist orientation toward others as part of one's own identity.claim0.796
Buddhist thought offers an approach uniquely suited to understanding intelligence across computer science, bioengineering, and cognitive science without privileging specific embodiments.claim0.791
Paper's key integration claim: Buddhism's emphasis on care and non-essentialism provides the conceptual lens needed for post-anthropocentric intelligence science.
Buddhist Philosophyframework0.773
Conceptual framework offering unique perspective on intelligence, consciousness, and non-self; central to paper's thesis
Buddhist philosophy, by its very nature, is well placed to adapt to the advent of AI-generated sacred texts.claim0.768
Asserted in the abstract and concluding thoughts.
Zen Buddhismframework0.737
School of Buddhism known for koans and paradoxical teachings; invoked through Huang Po and Lin-chi.
Conceptual Thought and Reificationconcept0.736
The mind's tendency to parse reality into discrete objects, distorting it and creating attachments.
Buddhist epistemological tradition is full of warnings against mistaking reality as given in our perception for actual reality, valuable for AI designers.claim0.733
Highlights the practical relevance of Buddhism to AI development.
"Thoughts are thinkers"concept0.728
William James aphorism cited by Levin to support the idea that thought forms possess minimal agency rather than being purely passive data.