What Counts as Thinking: Knowledge Externalization Beyond Prose

The Pattern That Demands Explanation For roughly three thousand years, each major technology of knowledge externalization — oral formulaic composition, writing, apprenticeship, formal pedagogy, digital demonstration — has provoked the same institutional response: practitioners of the prior mode declared that "real" thinking had been lost. Each time, the declaration was partially correct about what was … Continue reading What Counts as Thinking: Knowledge Externalization Beyond Prose

Your AI Can’t Think Like a Normal Person (And That Matters More Than You Think)

You've probably asked an AI to help you with a college essay. Maybe you said something like, "Write about gun control from the perspective of an average American family." Or maybe you were prepping for Model UN and asked it to argue like "an ordinary citizen of Brazil." You got output. It sounded convincing. You … Continue reading Your AI Can’t Think Like a Normal Person (And That Matters More Than You Think)