Machine Learning, Plant Learning, and the Destabilization of Buddhist Psychology
Hualin International Journal of Buddhist Studies October 1, 2020 Charles Goodman 3 citations
Recent developments in artificial intelligence and the nascent scientific literature on 'plant learning' pose serious challenges to Buddhist philosophy of mind and to Buddhist practical ethics. These challenges are of two general types. First, the empirical results threaten to extend the reach of mind more broadly than premodern South Asian and Tibetan Buddhists were willing to allow, calling...