Dharma HallVolume IIIThe Yogācāra Positioning of Large Language Models

The Fundamental Flaw of the Turing Test

The Turing test relies entirely on human intuitive judgment. But Yogācāra tells us: human intuition, specifically on whether another entity possesses selfhood, carries systematic bias — manas finds "self" in any consistent phenomenon, whether selfhood exists or not. Judging AI consciousness can't rely on feeling. The five universal mental factors provide a structural framework that doesn't depend on intuition: it asks not "does it look conscious?" but "are the structural conditions for cognition met?"