Post 4 in a series on AI and the Evolution of Cognition.

In the first three entries of this series—Thinking About Thinking, In the Post-Cognitive World, and The Three Stages of Cognitive Collapse—I’ve explored a fundamental shift in how we understand intelligence. What began as a deeply human concept—rooted in reflection, memory, and language—now finds itself on uncertain ground. Not because we’ve disproven cognition, but because intelligence is beginning to take new forms, forms that don’t require the familiar mental scaffolding we’ve come to associate with thought.

This discussion marks a turning point. We’ve spent time examining the undoing of cognition as a singular model. Now we turn to what may emerge in its........

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