Cognitive Ecology

Cognitive Ecology is an ongoing notebook of reflections on the future of life on Earth, our techno-utopian dreams, and the human-nature dichotomy to be collected in print annually. The ideas expressed here are also reflected in my fiction work: explore the Museum of Life.

To build better futures we must restore our cognitive ecology. Our minds need to be purified from the debris of human progress. We must once again think clearly, have morals and ethics, restore human dignity and decency, and learn to respect all life on Earth.

Index

Below you can find an index of everything I’ve written so far.

• Cognitive sovereignty

• There is no nature

• Everything is new under the sun

• AI is thirstier than humans

• We are the fireflies in the dark

• The machines will never be our overlords

• Your life should not be mined for content

• You are not an end user

• We didn’t master nature. We merely survived it.

• Are we rearranged food?

• Your brain is the new semiconductor

• Technology should reintegrate humans into planetary life

• Natural existence in an artificial age

• If it destroys life, it is progress?

At the end of the year, the work will be collected in a limited print edition.

You are the smallest unit of resistance: a unique worldview that encapsulates the entire universe. A clear mind can poke a hole in the fabric of our collective reality and glimpse at possible futures.

Thank you for reading,
—Claudia Befu