"There's a strange custody battle happening today, and the courtroom is in your own head. It's not between divorcing parents or rival siblings; it's between your innate capacity to think and the increasingly seductive technology that promises to do the thinking for you. In my earlier post on the borrowed mind, I warned about a precarious drift toward cognitive passivity and how this results in a hollowing out of thought when we accept answers too quickly and fail to embrace the value of curiosity."
"You stop asking "Why?" after the first good answer. Ambiguity feels less like an invitation to think deeper and more like a nuisance or obstacle to be digitally managed and resolved. And when this happens, curiosity takes a back seat as you find yourself falsely satiated by a technology shortcut rather than wrestling with the mishmash of unfinished ideas. There's something rather lonely about this."
A custody battle exists between human thinking capacity and seductive technology that offers to think for users. A slow drift toward cognitive passivity hollows out thought when answers are accepted too quickly and curiosity wanes. Symptoms include ceasing to ask "Why?", treating ambiguity as a nuisance, and becoming falsely satiated by technology shortcuts instead of wrestling with unfinished ideas. This can produce an orphaned mind that is well-fed but poorly raised. The trend is reversible: AI can function as a cooperative tool when humans actively shape thoughts, preserve friction, and remain co-authors of their cognition.
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