Hello science-fiction-inclined dharma friends, AI pessimists and evangelists, philosophers of mind, or/and followers of Korean translation,
Save the date, THUR AUG 29, for a digital gathering made possible by the LA Public Library. We’ll be reading and discussing a prescient tale by Seonghwan Park [박성환] about an AI in a Buddhist monastery who may or may not have become “enlightened.” What would this mean? What does achieving the Buddhist understanding of non-selfhood mean for the recently become self-aware robot? When it studies the self, does it forget the self?
Park’s 2004 story, “Readymade Boddhisattva” [레디메이드 보살] is also the title story given to this excellent 2019 collection of translated Korean science fiction published by Kaya press: https://kaya.com/books/readymade-bodhisatva-kaya-anthology-south-korean-science-fiction/
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>>TH 8/29/24 6pm PST
LAPL’s Sci-Fi Short Story Club
Explore Park Seonghwan’s short story “Readymade Bodhisattva” with sci-fi lovers from across the universe via Zoom, as selected by special guest Eugene Lim, on the occasion of his newly reissued novel Fog & Car. Email mtawin@lapl.org for the event link.