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...
Cognitive science and artificial intelligence converge at an unprecedented pace, exposing a crisis in terminology. The vocabulary for synthetic awareness has collapsed. Traditional terms like "artificial intelligence" and "machine consciousness" carry ideological baggage that frames synthetic awareness as derivative, adversarial to human experience, and ethically dangerous. This paper...