Buddhism holds that the self is a fabrication rather than an essential existence, and this idea of the self is closely connected to the concept of “no-self”. If I am not who I am, then who has been experiencing this moment, and suddenly everything becomes even more perplexing? In Buddhist teaching, the main tenet of mindfulness is that it is an essential precursor for approaching illumination,...
This paper addresses the question of whether AI can have self-awareness in the Brentanian framework of inner perception and Kriegel’s view on self-representationalism. First, I will discuss the notion of inner perception in Brentano, showing that, when one is conscious of the object of consciousness, at the same time, she is conscious of that mental state, and there is a subjective unity....