Stay Human Chapter 2 | Steve Sloman
Stay Human: Chapter 2 Helen just published Chapter 2 of Stay Human: "The Right to a Future Tense."
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9. The Intimacy Surface
The intimacy surface is where human cognition and machine capability meet. What crosses that boundary—information, intention, trust, meaning—shapes what both sides become.
10. The Last Human Boundary
We've always lived inside larger cognitive systems. We've always been, in some sense, their components. What differs now is speed—and that the coupling is cognitive in a way corporations and cities never were.
11. From Here
Staying author of your own mind turns out to be a practice, not a position. It requires noticing when you've stopped thinking and started accepting.
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