"AI Lies, Humans Hallucinate: 1,000 Years of Yogacara Logic Unmask Humanity’s Hallucinations" by Towa Joraku is a transformative exploration of human consciousness at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and ancient Buddhist wisdom. Drawing on her unique background as a software engineer and a Buddhist practitioner of forty years, Joraku provides a profound "manual" for navigating a life that often feels like a system full of unfixable bugs. ### Core Themes * **The Algorithm of Perception**: Joraku argues that the "hallucinations" of modern AI—plausible lies generated by statistical probability—are a direct mirror of the human mind. Just as AI predicts reality based on training data, humans construct a "plausible reality" based on the "biased data" of past traumas and desires (Klesha). * **The Storage of Life (Alaya-vijnana)**: The book introduces the Alaya-vijnana as a "Cosmic Cloud Storage". Every experience is stored as "seeds" (Bija) that dictate our personality and destiny. Joraku teaches readers how to "defrag" this internal database and overwrite negative logs with an "Algorithm of Compassion". * **Breaking the Infinite Loop**: Using the concept of Dependent Origination (Paratantra-svabhava), the author explains how to stop the "Stack Overflow" of suffering—the repetitive, recursive thoughts that drain our life energy. * **The Ninth Consciousness**: Beyond data and algorithms lies the Amala-vijnana, or Pure Consciousness. This "Source Code" provides humans with "Root Access" to their own lives, allowing them to transmute past suffering into supreme value—a capability AI can never reach.
