How are human minds intimately entangled with artificial minds? What ethical considerations emerge from the deep entanglement of human and machine? What are the potential benefits?
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What is intelligence? What distinguishes living minds from artificial minds?
Welcome and Opening Remarks
The 39th Mind & Life Dialogue, held in Dharamsala in 2025 under the theme “Minds, AI, and Ethics,” brought together scientists, philosophers, contemplatives, and educators to explore how artificial intelligence reshapes our understanding of consciousness, intelligence, and compassion. Opening remarks recalled His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s lifelong mission to bridge modern science with Buddhist wisdom, …
Bridging Science and Buddhism: The Dalai Lama’s 100 Year Vision
It was a starlit winter evening in southern India as we barreled down a rural road through a Tibetan settlement village in our tuk-tuk, a three-wheeled motorized taxi. The sputter of the motor was interrupted only by the joyful laughter of our Tibetan Buddhist monastic friends as they raced us in their own tuk-tuk on …
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Embodiment and Intersubjectivity: Empirical and Phenomenological Approaches, Pt 1
Two themes that have become prominent in studies of consciousness and cognition: embodiment and intersubjectivity. We will begin by discussing recent work in embodied cognition, informed by both science and philosophical phenomenology.
Results of the Shamatha Project
We will explore recent findings from our work at this interface between contemplative and research traditions. Together with Alan Wallace and three-dozen collaborating researchers, we are investigating how attentional, emotional and physiological processes change over the course of three months of intensive training in meditative quiescence and emotional balance, in a study known as “The Shamatha Project.”
Attention-Emotion Interface, Pt 2
Can meditation practice increase our capacity to understand the primary role of emotion in cognition and attention?
Attention-Emotion Interface, Pt 1
Can meditation practice increase our capacity to understand the primary role of emotion in cognition and attention?
The Utility of Improving Attention and Working Memory with Mindfulness-Based Training
What is the role of memory in contemplative development? Is there evidence in the tradition of elders showing extremely good memory given years of practice?
Paying Attention to Awareness: “Attention” (manasikārā), “Mindfulness” (sati) and “Clear Comprehension” (samapajañña)
How can we understand the relation between attention and memory in the practice of mindfulness?
