Abstract:
The Abhidhamma is one of the three parts of
the Pali cannon, the Tipitaka, the main texts of
Theravada Buddhism and is sometimes described
as ‘Buddhist Psychology’ [2]. Human mind is
consciousness (citta) and mental factors
(cetasikas) and there are 54 types of
consciousness in sensual plane in Abhidhamma.
Along with any consciousness, there arise certain
mental constituents which are called cetasikas or
mental factors, like love, hate, anger, disgust,
disappointment, etc. This paper researches into
the classification of human mind based on
consciousness in Abhidhamma by mean of forward
chaining technique. Consciousness Expert System
is developed as rule-based expert. The
consciousness in Abhidhamma are structured and
transformed as rules to be represented as
Abhidhamma knowledge-base. The forward
chaining technique is used to matching human
mind being with rules in Abhidhamma knowledgebase,
the specific type of consciousness is
analyze and produce the associated mental
factors.
