This is the third entry in a trilogy examining how artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the architecture of human thought. The first installment, "Knowledge Is Dead," marked the end of fixed epistemology. The second, "What If AI Isn’t Intelligence—But Anti-Intelligence?" questioned the very structure of cognition itself.

Now, we arrive at a different place. Not a ruin, but a threshold. The machine has taken us to the edge. What lies beyond is not resistance, but recognition.

This is the beginning of what I call Aetas Mentis—the Age of the Mind. A new perspective or phase of human cognition, not defined by control over knowledge or computational power, but by something subtler. It's defined by discernment, emotional nuance, lived memory, and the slow forming of thought.

It's clear that AI has upended our long-standing assumptions about

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