https://bifurcations.org/en/tags/intellectual-autonomy/Recent content in Intellectual Autonomy on BifurcationsHugoen-CASun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0400https://bifurcations.org/en/texts/ai-myth-sovereign-mind/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0400https://bifurcations.org/en/texts/ai-myth-sovereign-mind/<p><em>AI learns, predicts and recombines. Why should these operations be enough to rule out thought in machines when they also contribute to our own thinking?</em></p> <p>We are often told that artificial intelligence does not really think. It recognizes patterns, calculates probabilities and recombines what it has learned.</p> <p>That explanation led me to a question: to some extent, isn’t that what we do too?</p> <p>We learn to speak by listening to others. We interpret a situation through our experiences, connect memories and anticipate a reaction. Even an original idea uses words and categories that came before us. Much of what we call our thinking took shape through contact with other people’s thinking.</p>