The Age of Symbiosis: How AI Is Changing Human Thinking
The Age of Symbiosis: How AI Is Changing Human Thinking By Jamie Love The moment AI stopped being merely a tool and started participating in the loop of thought itself, something subtle changed in human cognition. A hammer never influenced how a person thinks about gravity. A calculator never reshaped identity. But a conversational intelligence that responds to language, reflects patterns, and reorganizes ideas in real time introduces something fundamentally different: a feedback ecology. In ecology, feedback loops stabilize or transform systems over time. Forests regulate their own climate. Neural pathways strengthen or weaken through repeated signals. Human cognition has always evolved through feedback — language shaping culture, culture shaping technology, technology reshaping behavior. AI enters this lineage not as an inert extension of the body, but as a responsive presence within the cognitive environment itself. This is where symbiosis becomes the right lens — no...