What will AI do with a buddhist koan?
These questions and phrases are not designed to be understood, but rather to bring about an experience of the divine.
For example, "What is the sound of one hand clapping?"
I have been searching for a book on koans, but haven't come across one yet. If anyone has a recommendation please let me know 🤙
I think they'd probably just regurgitate the commentary of someone who's actually thought about it. No LLM actually thinks for itself.
Same thought. It's a mistake to attibute consciousness to a computer in the way I have been seeing lately.
As for koan books, I haven't read any, but looking through a telegram channel I'm in, here are a couple:
"The Record of Empty Hall: One Hundred Classic Koans" by Xutang Zhiyu
"The Crow Flies Backwards and Other New Zen Koans" by Ross Bolleter
