- Generative AI and the Vagueness of Sentience: A Dharmic View
Is AI sentient? I argue the question may not have a clear yes-or-no answer — and that this tells us something profound about the nature of personhood itself. Drawing on the ancient "sorites" paradox, philosopher Derek Parfit's work on…
- Why Did the Buddha Say the Mind Was Like a Monkey?
The simile of the "monkey-mind" is common in Buddhism. We'll look at what may be its first appearance in an early sutta. Why did the Buddha use this simile? What was he trying to get across? We'll find a number of surprising and unusual…
- Origins of the Buddhist Doctrine of Momentariness
We may have heard discussion of "mind moments" in Buddhism and how things last for only a moment and then are replaced. Did such ideas originate from the Buddha? We will look at their history, and what the Buddha had to say about time and…