Varela 2026: In the Grove of Mortality (Part 7)

In Part 7 of the Varela Contemplative Science Retreat, Molly Crockett turns to a question with real stakes in the race of AI development: Can Buddhist ethics be taught to a machine? Drawing on Francisco Varela’s concept of ethical know-how, she distinguishes “knowledge that” — facts and principles a system can represent — from “knowledge how,” the embodied wisdom that “requires embodied experience…

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