In an age of artificial intelligence, the deeper question may be whether we still allow our thinking to change us.
Artificial intelligence can generate insight at scale, but it cannot be transformed by it.I’ve spent the last few years thinking about intelligence, looking to understand human, artificial, and the strange space between them.
Most of the debate is around capability. How fast can it reason? How accurately can the answer be? How convincingly can it write? But somewhere along the way, I began to sense that we were measuring the wrong thing. Intelligence is usually judged by performance, and even our admiration of large language models follows that pattern that, when unleashed, ends up with the curious notion of artificialYet the most meaningful moments of human intelligence in my own life have had very little to do with production. They have had everything to do with transformation. And this led me to a deceptively simple yet startling insight.I’ve seen it in medicine. A clinician pauses, reconsiders a decision, feels that faint unease that something doesn’t fit. That reconsideration is not just a correction—it carries responsibility. It may alter treatment, outcomes, evencaptures the unease we feel when belief and behavior collide and the internal friction that follows. But let's add a bit more context to this ubiquitous human experience. Philosopher L.A. Paul has described “,” moments that just don't add information but alter who we are. In both cases, thought does not merely update data. It In these moments, intelligence is not just the ability to generate possibilities. It is the capacity to be altered by them, because the experience itself fundamentally transforms the person experiencing it. Large language models display extraordinary computational ability. They move through"possibility space" with remarkable speed and capability. But the outputs do not, in any way, attach to an interior life. They don't accumulate biography and are not reshaped by what they produce. Each response stands alone.and clinical settings, I’ve begun to notice something subtle but significant. When tools deliver instant, polished synthesis, people often seem less connected to the result. The answer feels correct and efficient, but sometimes less substantial. And as a result, retention may be shallower. None of this diminishes’s ability to accelerate discovery or surface blind spots. But I wonder whether frictionless fluency occasionally allows us to bypass the very discomfort that makes insight sticky or durable. We need to understand that genuine reflection is rarely this smooth. It involves—no, incorporates—the bumps of hesitation and doubt. And this complex friction interacts with identity as it moves forward in time and context.But in a culture dominated with a sort of cognitive instant gratification, something may be shifting. When reflection becomes externalized, we may drift into the precarious zone of selection rather than transformation. For me, the concern isn't that machines can think. It's that we may become less willing to let thinking change us. And if intelligence includes the capacity for self-alteration, then preserving this in the age of artificial intelligence may depend on protecting our own"cognitive permeability" and our human capacity to be reshaped by our own reasoning.23 Surprising Ways Others Shape You. Having friends protects you in multiple ways, from slowing cellular aging to deterring bullies to bolstering your self-esteem.Self Tests are all about you. Are you outgoing or introverted? Are you a narcissist? Does perfectionism hold you back? Find out the answers to these questions and more with Psychology Today.
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