Your Brain Runs at 10 Bits/Second—AI at 1 Trillion. Who's Really Thinking?

My doctor consults ChatGPT mid-diagnosis while I Google my symptoms in the waiting room. Neither of us knows who's actually practicing medicine.

In March, Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon confirmed our worst nightmare: AI dependence is literally shrinking our minds. Workers outsourcing cognition show "atrophied" critical thinking skills. Your brain crawls at 10 bits per second, less bandwidth than a 1960s modem, while AI processes trillions.

Clark and Chalmers' "extended mind" theory became reality faster than predicted. Sam Gilbert's fMRI scans reveal brain activity plummeting when we offload tasks. London cabbies' enlarged hippocampi mock our GPS-dependent skulls. We're not augmenting intelligence; we're replacing it.

Internet searching inflates perceived intelligence while actual knowledge evaporates. ChatGPT strips away pretense, users feel "dumb talking to it." Students submit AI essays with fabricated citations. Doctors diagnose via chatbot. The tools meant to enhance us now think instead of us.

The Jevons paradox strikes hard: AI efficiency multiplies workload expectations. Journalists juggle reporting, fact-checking, brand-building simultaneously. Engineers code themselves obsolete under impossible deadlines.

• Reading for fun among 13-year-olds: crashed from 35% to 14% • "TikTok Brain" physically disrupts neural reading circuits • Poor teens spend more device time; wealthy families enforce limits

When Sam Altman builds "magic intelligence in the sky" without society's consent, whose mind remains sovereign?

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💡 We're entering a world where intelligence is synthetic, reality is augmented, and the rules are being rewritten in front of our eyes.

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