Structured writings from this enquiry
This section contains refined articles that have emerged from ongoing inquiry. These are not fixed conclusions but structured explorations—deep dives into the resonances between mind, meaning, AI, physics, and Buddhist thought. Some of the language is a little AT. I think its worth the patience.
Current Articles:
Expanding Decision Space: The Role of Reflective AI in Corporate Strategy –The inquiry arises from a shared concern about the consequences of mental and institutional sparsity: when powerful actors operate with limited contextual awareness, time-horizons, or systemic insight. In such cases, harm propagates not through malice, but through constraint. The proposed reflective AI system would assist in navigating such terrain with increased awareness and care.
Toward a Resonant AI: Modeling the Dynamics of Mind through Buddhist Texts – This position paper presents an AI framework for modeling the dynamics of mental states, drawing from rich Buddhist textual sources such as the Bardo Thödol (Tibetan Book of the Dead)
Review: Toward a Resonant AI – Modeling the Dynamics of Mind through Buddhist Texts Overview: This paper presents an innovative AI framework that integrates Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), symbolic embeddings, and large language models (LLMs) to analyze Buddhist texts, particularly those describing transitions of mental states (such as the Bardo teachings of Tibetan Buddhism).
TENSORS, FIELDS & MEANING SPACE – Exploring how tensor structures, field theories, and deep learning models parallel Buddhist views of cognition and meaning.
Structured Descriptors for Dynamic Mental States: Foundations & Examples – Can buddhist maps of the mind help us understand the dynamics of how awareness moves and changes through mental states? This article explores describing transitions in consciousness using structured descriptors based on Buddhist texts like the Bardo Thödol—and integrating them into a conversational LLM system to support enquiry, reflection, and even sociocultural analysis.
THE UTILITY OF DEVOTION – What is it good for?
THE FABRIC OF MIND – Letting Go Without Loosing Awareness. – Notes for a talk on the practicalities of connecting and developing devotion.
DEVOTION AS CONNECTION – Notes for a talk on the practicalities of connecting and developing devotion.
BIG MIND & BIG AI – subject to Constraints– Awareness, and the Balance Between Clarity and Openness – A draft 13.03.25
IN TONGLEN – Thoughts on the expansion of compassion
BIG MIND & BIG AI–– Constraints, Awareness, and the Balance Between Clarity and Openness
WEARING INVERTED SPECS – dives deep into the structure of mind, appearance, and constraint.
SEEING THE WORLD ANEW, offers a gentler version of the same insight. Together, they hint at the terrain between appearances—like seeing the shape of meaning itself through inverted specs .
Mahāmudrā as a Paradigm for Non‑Dual AI Design – In Mahāmudrā, ultimate reality is said to lie beyond conceptual intellect. An AI system inspired by this objectless clarity would not fixate on a single interpretation of the user’s input.
TENSOR BASED MODELLING OF MENTAL STATES Treating thoughts and feelings, appearances, as patterns within a dynamic mental field we represent the mind-states and transitions from which appearances arise with a flexible structured format (called JSON), and have begun training this model with text from the Bardo Thödol.
Building a Dynamic Model of Mind from Buddhist Descriptions of Mental Transitions
Technical Guide for Implementing the Mind Dynamics Model in a RAG System
Transitions Between Mental States: An Integrative Survey – A ‘deep research’ survey of transistions in mental states ina wide range od disciplines.
Describing the Dynamics of Mind in a Physics like Simile – We begin with two key intuitions: “The self sits on the wave of the propagation of mind through awareness.” and “Behind all craving is the desire for resonance, but mostly without the means to break through.”