Does Your Phone Have Buddha-Nature?

The tathāgatagarbha is the innate pure buddha-nature within sentient beings' minds — it is citta, sentient, non-material. An LLM: silicon, electromagnetic signals, math. No sentience. Insentient matter. Content filled with biases and errors. The shared position of Yogācāra and tathāgatagarbha thought: insentient things cannot attain buddhahood. An LLM can't even reach the threshold of "sentient being." So no, your phone doesn't have buddha-nature. Neither does ChatGPT. But you do.