The Buddha in the Machine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Buddha in the Machine write by R. John Williams. This book was released on 2014-06-24. The Buddha in the Machine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The writers and artists described in this book are joined by a desire to embrace 'Eastern' aesthetics as a means of redeeming 'Western' technoculture. The assumption they all share is that at the core of modern Western culture there lies an originary and all-encompassing philosophical error - and that Asian art offers a way out of that awful matrix. That desire, this book attempts to demonstrate, has informed Anglo- and even Asian-American debates about technology and art since the late nineteenth century and continues to skew our responses to our own technocultural environment.
The Ethics of AI and Robotics
The Ethics of AI and Robotics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ethics of AI and Robotics write by Soraj Hongladarom. This book was released on 2020-08-20. The Ethics of AI and Robotics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Artificial intelligence is the most discussed and arguably the most powerful technology in the world today. The very rapid development of the technology, and its power to change the world, and perhaps even ourselves, calls for a serious and systematic thinking about its ethical and social implications, as well as how its development should be directed. The present book offers a new perspective on how such a direction should take place, based on insights obtained from the age-old tradition of Buddhist teaching. The book argues that any kind of ethical guidelines for AI and robotics must combine two kinds of excellence together, namely the technical and the ethical. The machine needs to aspire toward the status of ethical perfection, whose idea was laid out in detail by the Buddha more than two millennia ago. It is this standard of ethical perfection, called “machine enlightenment,” that gives us a view toward how an effective ethical guideline should be made. This ideal is characterized by the realization that all things are interdependent, and by the commitment to alleviate all beings from suffering, in other words by two of the quintessential Buddhist values. The book thus contributes to a concern for a norm for ethical guidelines for AI that is both practical and cross-cultural.
Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha
Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha write by Daniel Ingram. This book was released on 2020-01-20. Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The very idea that the teachings can be mastered will arouse controversy within Buddhist circles. Even so, Ingram insists that enlightenment is an attainable goal, once our fanciful notions of it are stripped away, and we have learned to use meditation as a method for examining reality rather than an opportunity to wallow in self-absorbed mind-noise. Ingram sets out concisely the difference between concentration-based and insight (vipassana) meditation; he provides example practices; and most importantly he presents detailed maps of the states of mind we are likely to encounter, and the stages we must negotiate as we move through clearly-defined cycles of insight. Its easy to feel overawed, at first, by Ingram's assurance and ease in the higher levels of consciousness, but consistently he writes as a down-to-earth and compassionate guide, and to the practitioner willing to commit themselves this is a glittering gift of a book.In this new edition of the bestselling book, the author rearranges, revises and expands upon the original material, as well as adding new sections that bring further clarity to his ideas.
The Buddha in the Attic
The Buddha in the Attic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Buddha in the Attic write by Julie Otsuka. This book was released on 2011-08-23. The Buddha in the Attic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PEN/FAULKER AWARD WINNER • The acclaimed author of The Swimmers and When the Emperor Was Divine tells the story of a group of young women brought from Japan to San Francisco as “picture brides” a century ago in this "understated masterpiece ... that unfolds with great emotional power" (San Francisco Chronicle). In eight unforgettable sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces the extraordinary lives of these women, from their arduous journeys by boat, to their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first nights as new wives; from their experiences raising children who would later reject their culture and language, to the deracinating arrival of war. Julie Otsuka has written a spellbinding novel about identity and loyalty, and what it means to be an American in uncertain times.
Razor-Wire Dharma
Razor-Wire Dharma - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Razor-Wire Dharma write by Calvin Malone. This book was released on 2008-10-10. Razor-Wire Dharma available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Razor-Wire Dharma is an eloquent, enlightening, and utterly inspiring personal story how one man found Buddhism—and real, transformative meaning for his life—despite being in one of the world's harshest environments.
