Sejin Chang

Rethinking Self-Understanding in the Age of AI: From Reflective Outcome to Pre-Configured Self-Understanding

Religions June 29, 2026 Kwanghyun Han, Sejin Chang

This study reconceptualizes self-understanding not as a reflective outcome but as a conditionally constituted process grounded in the Buddhist principle of dependent origination (pratītyasamutpāda). Adopting a comparative philosophical analysis, it examines how traditional meditation and AI-mediated meditation differently configure the conditions under which experience and self-understanding...