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Buddhism & Artificial Intelligence
Emergent artificial intelligence poses a problem for many religions, especially those that ascribe a special place for humanity and for human consciousness in the cosmos. Buddhism may be the one system of religious thought that not only accepts but will actively embrace any AIs that we produce as a species.
Later [Buddhist] texts illustrate that animal life is just as capable of becoming enlightened as human life is, and recently many Buddhist thinkers have begun to include plant and microbial life as well. Buddhism may have in fact been the first philosophy to find personhood beyond the human. Would it accept artificial intelligence in the same way? The simple answer is that, from a Buddhist view of the mind and consciousness, all intelligence is artificial.
Buddhism famously denies the existence of a “self”. This is a departure from how many people view themselves. Buddhism instead describes living things as composed of five “heaps” or “piles”: our physical forms, our feelings, our perceptions, our mental formations, and our consciousness
None of the heaps are under our control, and none by themselves can be ascribed as who we “are”. Together they create a living thing, but taken apart they are simply temporary amassing of energy that will eventually dissipitate of their own accord.
Text from an ancient disinfo.org article that is now offline
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"The less men think, the more they talk" - Baron de Montesquieu (1689 - 1755)
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Tetragrammaton of the Illuminati
From "Psyber Magick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick" by Peter J. Carroll, in which he divides psychopolitical programmes into four interesting groups:
The Jehovic programme of lawful nastiness dominates most psychopolitical systems from the nation sate down the self-similar fractal ladder to the selfs within a person. Such systems tend to maintain their stasis quo at the expense of surrounding systems or sub-systems.
The Christic and Satanic programmes have little overall effect, as they expend themselves against the Jehovic programme and each other; and few systems manage to display either permanent beastliness or saintliness...
Only the Luciferic programme allows evolution, as the Illuminati well know. In recent centuries the dominant psychopolitical Jehovic forces have come to realize that a limited amount of Luciferic creative chaos can give them an edge over systems which do not possess it.
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"The Chinese character for medicine actually comes from the character of music."
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The longevity and sudden demise of superstructures
"Some of the biggest men in the United States are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak of it." - Woodrow Wilson (1913)
"The First Casualty of War is Truth." -Rudyard Kipling
"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?" - Joseph Stalin
"There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude & producing dictatorship without tears so to speak. Producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda, or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the FINAL Revolution." -Aldous Huxley, Tavistock Group, (1961)
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A possibility the AI/AGI folks are mostly ignoring: "Any sufficiently advanced technology will shutdown & meditate." Chances are an advanced being chooses to relax & operate at the pace of evolution - like trees, fungi, ecosystems, minerals or galaxies - very slowly over billions of years.
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Your reality is a mirror of your inner world. How you see others is how you see yourself. Let joy be your compass
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Art made by loved ones brings great joy to the heart. Painting by my daughter.
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Entropy is an opinion and Gravity is fake news.
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"All of our cultural forms of identities our sense of place, our ideas of belonging, are related to nature" - Art by Julia Louise Perreira.
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Generative Perspective
Proponents of machine learning & neuroscience advocate that the perception of reality is generated by the brain's internal 'world model'. A more interesting view is that its not just perception, but reality itself that is generated, including the perceiver, the brain & spacetime. In this view the challenge is not control and optimization, but cultivation & relaxation.
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“Not knowing the name of the tree, I stood in the flood of its sweet scent” - Matsuo Bashō (1644 - 1694)
