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New post on Journal of Buddhist Ethics Free Will and Artificial Intelligence by buddhistethics ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 25, 2018 Buddhist Philosophy, Free Will, and Artificial Intelligence James V. Luisi Independent Scholar Can Buddhist philosophy and Western philosophical conceptions of free will intelligently inform each other? Repetti has described one possible Buddhist option of solving the free will problem by identifying a middle path between the extremes of rigid determinism, as understood by the hard determinist, and random indeterminism, as understood by the hard indeterminist. In support of this middle path option, I draw upon ideas from the fields of artificial intelligence, quantum computing, evolutionary psychology, and related fields that together render coherent the ideas that determinism may be non-rigid and that indeterminism may be non-random, on the one hand, and upon Buddhist ideas, such as interdependence, the four-cornered negation, and what Repetti describes as the Buddhist conception of causation as “wiggly,” to argue that Buddhist philosophy has much to contribute to the field of artificial intelligence, on the other hand. Together, I suggest, the Buddhist philosopher and the software expert would form an ideal team to take on the task of constructing genuine artificial intelligence capable of the sort of conscious agency that human beings apparently possess. Read article buddhistethics | October 18, 2018 at 11:17 am | Categories: Volume 25 2018 | URL: https://wp.me/p5X8HA-1aN Comment    See all comments Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://blogs.dickinson.edu/buddhistethics/2018/10/18/free-will-and-artificial-intelligence/