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Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and the Soul-Womb Analogy: Philosophical Limits of Machine Consciousness in the Yoga Sūtra and the Bhagavad Gītā | ||
| مجله پژوهش های فلسفی | ||
| مقالات آماده انتشار، پذیرفته شده، انتشار آنلاین از تاریخ 27 خرداد 1405 | ||
| نوع مقاله: مقاله علمی- پژوهشی | ||
| شناسه دیجیتال (DOI): 10.22034/jpiut.2026.71455.4443 | ||
| نویسنده | ||
| ژانانجای تریوئدی* | ||
| استادیار، دانشگاه نوآوری گیانمانجاری، دانشکده هنر، باونگر، گجرات، هند. | ||
| چکیده | ||
| The contemporary discourse on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) increasingly raises questions concerning machine consciousness, self-awareness, and the possibility of a soul. Although advances in artificial intelligence have enabled systems to exhibit learning, adaptation, and self-modeling, the philosophical status of these capacities remains contested. This paper examines whether AGI can possess a soul by drawing upon the conceptual distinction between prakṛti and puruṣa as articulated in the Yoga Sūtra and the Bhagavad Gītā. Within these traditions, cognition, information processing, and adaptive behavior belong to the domain of prakṛti and are understood as functional or instrumental operations rather than true intelligence. Consciousness (puruṣa or ātman), by contrast, is defined as the witnessing principle that is irreducible to material, computational, or functional processes. Adopting a comparative philosophical methodology, the study places insights from Indian philosophy in dialogue with contemporary debates in the philosophy of mind concerning the distinction between functional cognition and conscious subjectivity. To clarify the ontological limit identified by the Yoga Sūtra and the Bhagavad Gītā, the paper employs the soul–womb analogy strictly as a philosophical illustration. The analogy is not presented as a biological or theological claim, but as a way of highlighting the distinction between creating enabling conditions and generating consciousness itself. Just as a womb provides the conditions for embodiment without producing the soul, artificial systems may reproduce the conditions of cognition without giving rise to conscious subjectivity or true intelligence. On this basis, the paper argues that AGI, regardless of its future sophistication, cannot possess a soul in the sense defined by the Yoga Sūtra and the Bhagavad Gītā. The analysis further explores the ethical implications of this position, cautioning against the anthropomorphization of artificial systems and reaffirming that moral responsibility and spiritual status remain grounded in human agents, who alone embody both functional cognition and conscious awareness. By clarifying the foundations of consciousness rather than treating it as an emergent computational property, the paper positions the Yoga Sūtra and the Bhagavad Gītā as valuable philosophical resources for contemporary discussions on AGI, consciousness, and AI ethics. | ||
| کلیدواژهها | ||
| Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), Consciousness؛ Prakṛti–Puruṣa, Yoga Sūtra؛ Bhagavad Gītā, Soul-Womb Analogy, AI Ethics, | ||
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