Thinking About Thinking—How AI Reshapes Cognition

This is the first post in a series.

For me, cognition is the quiet engine of my existence. It shapes how we interpret reality, how we construct meaning, and how we define intelligence itself. For centuries, we’ve assumed that thinking—deliberate, introspective, memory-based—is not only central to intelligence but largely human. But what if this understanding reflects the structure of our own biology more than it reveals something fundamental about intelligence…