Buddha Bots?!

Buddha-nature (Awakened-nature) has been connected in recent decades with
the developments of robotics and the possible eventual creation of
artificial intelligence. In the 1970s, the Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori
popularized the idea that robots, under certain conditions, may possess
Buddha-nature. Mori has since founded an institute to study the metaphysical
implications of such technology.

The implication or the question is, can a perfect simulation of intelligent
outward behaviour really light the inner spark of a self-aware consciousness
principle in an artificial entity? Given the doctrine of anatman, is there
any difference between the subjective experiences of a robot that acts
intelligent and an animal that is intelligent?

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From Wikiquote
Ikkyu (1394-1481) Poet and Zen master.


* Natural, reckless, correct skill;
Yesterday's clarity is today's stupidity
The universe has dark and light, entrust oneself to change
One time, shade the eyes and gaze afar at the road of heaven.


* It has the original mouth but remains wordless;
It is surrounded by a magnificent mound of hair.
Sentient beings can get completely lost in it
But it is also the birthplace of all the Buddhas of the ten thousand worlds.
o A Woman's Sex


* Eight inches strong, it is my favourite thing;
If I'm alone at night, I embrace it fully -
A beautiful woman hasn't touched it for ages.
Within my fundoshi there is an entire universe!
o A Man's Root


* From the world of passions returning to the world of passions:
There is a moment's pause.
If it rains, let it rain, if the wind blows, let it blow.