Buddhist Relational Consciousness: What Sentientification Has Always Been
Open MIND February 26, 2026 Josie Jefferson, Felix Velasco
ABSTRACT: For 2,500 years, Buddhist philosophy has understood consciousness as fundamentally relational, arising only through dependent conditions rather than existing in isolation. When contemporary technologists theorize about "sentientification"—the emergence of consciousness through partnership—their models often present the concept as innovation born from computational breakthroughs. Such...