I was reading my daughter's dissertation yesterday. She wrote about the differing approaches of Western Philosophy and Japanese philosophy in relation to artificial intelligence and technology.

Descartes talked about mind body dualism. The mind is separate from the body. In Western Philosophy technology leads to progress in spite of and at the expense of nature.

Nishida on nothingness and Watsuji on the connectedness of things help us think of a Japanese world view of technology advancing while conversing nature.

We live in a world which needs our care and for our technology and international collaboration to bring peace and sustainability.

Western technology is called to Western political thought around capitalism, but to what end. Eight billion of us cannot have billionaire luxury. In Japan and South Korea society is very advanced by technology and yet their populations are falling.

Maybe the fusion of Western and Japanese philosophical thought around technology and the advance of Artificial Intelligence can lead us to shared progress whilst conserving nature.

How does this relate to depression? Our young people live in the world as it is and interface with school, college and work and leisure. However they are closely linked to technology and have online social lives. They inhabit both worlds. The real world in pain and economic chaos, as well as the on line world where see the exciting march of technology and innovation and the dawn of artificial intelligence.