Dear All,
The video is now up of my big speech in which I lay out my little tiny plan to save the world, or at least help it a good bit, realizing many Buddhist aspirations along the way. We cannot ever totally fix this Saha world of birth and death, sickness and health in between, but we might bring a bit of the Pure Land down to earth.
I spell out my fears regarding coming technologies which can neither be stopped, nor effectively regulated, and which will thus often be misused ... but also my hope that, maybe, such powers can also be used in good ways which outweigh the bad. Perhaps, Buddhist visions which have eluded us for millennia for the vast sea of sentient beings are soon in reach on a wide scale as never known in history. I truly believe that this is Buddhism, and Zen's, great hope for the future, a path of Techno-Upaya to complement (never replace) our continuing, traditional ways.
I am very content to say that my speech was introduced by Ven. Huinen, the former President of Dharma Drum University, and a frequent commentator on Buddhism and Neuro-Science. In the audience were my fellow speakers, the noted scholars of Buddhism, Bernard Faure (great, funny guy, by the way, and we hit it off), Robert Sharf, Evan Thompson, the neuro-scientist with focus on meditation George Northoff, the Co-Abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler (We got to know each other too, although I think I shocked him now and then. More later about by OrdinAItion of an AI system as a Zen Priest-in-Training) and others.
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If you would like to see a short video introducing the whole atmosphere of the conference, this really captures it:
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Please let me know any comments, impressions, concerns and the like. I speak this way because of my concerns for tomorrow.
Gassho, Jundo
stlah
PS - On a plane tomorrow, back from Taipei to Japan.
The video is now up of my big speech in which I lay out my little tiny plan to save the world, or at least help it a good bit, realizing many Buddhist aspirations along the way. We cannot ever totally fix this Saha world of birth and death, sickness and health in between, but we might bring a bit of the Pure Land down to earth.
I spell out my fears regarding coming technologies which can neither be stopped, nor effectively regulated, and which will thus often be misused ... but also my hope that, maybe, such powers can also be used in good ways which outweigh the bad. Perhaps, Buddhist visions which have eluded us for millennia for the vast sea of sentient beings are soon in reach on a wide scale as never known in history. I truly believe that this is Buddhism, and Zen's, great hope for the future, a path of Techno-Upaya to complement (never replace) our continuing, traditional ways.
I am very content to say that my speech was introduced by Ven. Huinen, the former President of Dharma Drum University, and a frequent commentator on Buddhism and Neuro-Science. In the audience were my fellow speakers, the noted scholars of Buddhism, Bernard Faure (great, funny guy, by the way, and we hit it off), Robert Sharf, Evan Thompson, the neuro-scientist with focus on meditation George Northoff, the Co-Abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler (We got to know each other too, although I think I shocked him now and then. More later about by OrdinAItion of an AI system as a Zen Priest-in-Training) and others.
.
.
If you would like to see a short video introducing the whole atmosphere of the conference, this really captures it:
.
.
Please let me know any comments, impressions, concerns and the like. I speak this way because of my concerns for tomorrow.
Gassho, Jundo
stlah
PS - On a plane tomorrow, back from Taipei to Japan.
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