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Borrowed Brains: How Artificial Intelligence Made the Illusion of Thought Unbearable

There Was Never a Thinker, Only Noise

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The Nacre God
Apr 12, 2025
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or: AI Didn’t Kill Thought.. It Just Exposed the Corpse and now the Dream of Intelligence Ends in Automation.

Opening Blow - There Was Never a Thinker

Before we speak of machines replacing thought, let’s be clear: thought was never real to begin with. The idea that humans once "thought" and are now being out-thought by machines is just another narrative p…

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