A year of thinking

Cognitive Sovereignty is an ongoing notebook of reflections on society, technology, nature, and the future of life on Earth. The project unfolds over the course of a year through aphorisms, reflections, and occasional long-form essays. The ideas expressed here are also reflected in my fiction work placed in the secondary universe the Museum of Life.

Cognitive Sovereignty

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

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