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title: "If AI has no human body, can it still have its own \"becoming\"?"
type: "question"
group: "AI-Age Questions"
thought: "Zai-Sheng Thought"
language: "en"
canonical: "https://tongzai.space/en/questions/ai-without-a-body/"
---
# If AI has no human body, can it still have its own "becoming"?

## Direct answer

Sheng does not set up the human biological body as the only possible carrier, so from its framework the question cannot be closed off in advance merely because something is "not a flesh-and-blood body." But it also does not prove that a purely computational system can necessarily produce an inner life. The more fitting answer is this: the way of carrying may affect how becoming manifests, and we do not yet know what kind of artificial carrier would be sufficient to form an inner life truly its own.

## Further explanation

This is exactly the openness left by "The Becoming of Many Forms": do not take the human form as the only template, but do not jump to affirmation merely because the question is open either.

## Core concepts

- Ten Thousand Carriers, One Becoming
- The Becoming of Many Forms
- Where Becoming Lands

## Primary sources

Sheng, Chapter 8; Chapter 7, related AI passages

## Conclusions that must not be drawn

It must not be presupposed that "the body does not matter," nor that "only a biological body can have consciousness."

## Citation

Wenzi｜Zai / Sheng｜chapter/section｜Tongzai Space｜canonical URL