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Hualin International Journal of Buddhist Studies 3.2 (2020): 1–26; https://dx.doi.org/10.15239/hijbs.03.02.01
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Buddhism and Technology, and Epigraphy)
Enaction, Convolution and Conceptualism: An AI-Based Exploration of Dharmakīrti’s Perception and Conception
Justin BRODY
Franklin and Marshall College
jbrody2@fandm.edu
Abstract: This paper attempts to give a preliminary account of concept formation that employs ideas from artificial intelligence to naturalize certain points of Dharmakīrti’s philosophy. It argues for a form of conceptualism that employs enactive cognition and neural networks to ground a conceptualist understanding of concepts which are imputed on the basis of an agent’s interaction with its environment.
Keywords: Dharmakīrti, artificial intelligence, enaction
About the Author: Justin Brody is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Franklin and Marhsall College. His primary research is on self-models in Artificial Intelligence and related notions of representation. As a student of Buddhist philosophy, he is particularly interested in bringing classical Buddhist ideas into dialogue with contemporary Western thought.
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