Past year

Most consequential belief I've changed my mind on in the past year

FEATURED ON HOMEPAGETHOUGHTS

8/11/20251 min read

About the knowledge and thinking abilities of human beings. We've traditionally lived as if humans are limited to acquiring external knowledge and applying it efficiently, defining ourselves primarily through these cognitive capabilities. However, after AI proved that knowledge processing and even complex thinking models can be handled efficiently by machines that humans built, I realized there is fundamentally more to us than just our intellectual possessions.

This shift changed my perspective on many life situations, including climate, society, and our very existence. I began to see the life brimming all around us—life that we previously had no time to reflect upon or connect with due to our self-driven nature to satisfy our egos. We built everything around human-centric needs, which has profoundly affected other living beings, as we are deeply interconnected. This impact extends beyond animals to include humans living in vulnerable areas who bear the consequences of irresponsible infrastructure and resource consumption they didn't cause.

This philosophical shift revealed a massive market blind spot: while everyone focuses on replacing human cognitive functions with AI, the real opportunity lies in leveraging our uniquely human capacity for connection, empathy, and systems thinking to solve interconnected global challenges.