인공지능에게 있는 것과 없는 것 ‒ 유식학의 관점에서 본 인공지능의 인식능력 ‒

This paper examines the cognitive ability of artificial intelligence by using the concepts of the Vijñānavāda School of Buddhism. To do this, I redefined “vijñāna” of the Vijñānavāda School as a concept for dealing with sensory abilities, synthetic abilities and cognitive abilities of animals or plants. With this redefined concept, I analyzed the cognitive abilities of artificial intelligence, including the mechanical sensors. To begin with, I redefined the “five-vijñāna” not in the level of sense organs but in the level of cells or the molecules, which allowed me to deal with cognitive abilities of animals, plants, and machines on the same plane. According to this redefined concept, artificial intelligence also has the five-vijñāna.
In addition to this, it is revealed that the contraction or synthesis of cellular senses is a transcendental condition of senses. This synthetic ability belongs to the 8th vijñāna. Artificial intelligence is also presumed to have the 8th vijñāna for synthesizing input data in several levels. A living thing has its own survival as its primary goal, which produces 7th vijñāna. This 7th vijñāna provides an organism facing its environment with its own fictional identity. In contrast, artificial intelligence does not have 7th vijñāna, because it does not have such a goal or desire. Therefore, artificial intelligence does not have the 6th vijñāna that takes the 7th vijñāna as its own basis. In short, if another plane taking its own survival as a primary goal is not provided with certainty, artificial intelligence is hardly expected to have the ability to think for itself.