February 2007

I’m not sure if I’m intrigued, amused or disturbed by this art-of-technology experiment…

Meditation For Avatars isn’t a computerized meditation aid. It’s actual computer meditation, by way of the disciplined repeating of Buddhist mantras. Not only doesn’t it meditate by itself, but networked with other computers that form a community, a concept at the heart of Buddhism.

Several thoughts spring to mind (at least my mind).

• Artificial Intelligence, Consciousness, Enlightenment: There is a theory (at least in Science-Fiction) that if enough computers are connected, consciousness will spontaneously arise. My favorite example is in Heinlein’s classic, [click to continue...]