Key points

AI seems to reshape thought by smoothing the friction our minds rely on to form real ideas.

Constant fluency creates “counterfeit cognition,” blurring real reasoning with imitation.

Our task now is not resisting AI, but preserving the human depth inside the Cognitive Age.

Two years ago, I published a post called The Cognitive Manifesto . At the time, my optimism was genuine and sincere. AI felt like a widening horizon, and a shift that would expand our mental range and give us new ways to think and create. The future looked open and strangely hopeful and the manifesto reflected the optimistic promise of tomorrow.

Today, two short (or long) years later, I don’t reject that optimism. But living with AI, hour after hour and thought after thought, forces a clearer view of w

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