Expanded Awareness: A Health Psychologist's Inquiry into AI and Consciousness - Softcover

Guellati-Salcedo PH D, Sophie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 196846512X ISBN 13: 9781968465124

Publisher: SGS Quantum Press, 2026

Synopsis

What happens to your thinking when you rely on AI to think with you?
 
You can interact with artificial intelligence every day and not notice what it is changing.
Not what it produces, but how you interpret, decide, and assign meaning.
 
As generative systems become more fluent, their coherence can be mistaken for understanding. Convenience can replace inquiry. Gradually, the locus of judgment shifts from personal discernment to system-mediated structure.
 
This book does not explain how AI works. It examines what happens to us when we interact with it.
 
Through a psychological and philosophical lens, this inquiry clarifies the distinctions between intelligence, sentience, and consciousness. It explores how meaning is formed, how projection operates, and how agency can quietly diffuse in interactions with responsive systems.
 
The central question is not whether machines will become conscious.
It is whether humans will remain conscious in their use of them.
 
Expanded Awareness: A Health Psychologist's Inquiry into AI and Consciousness offers a rigorous yet accessible reflection on perception, authorship, agency, and human participation in the age of generative intelligence.

About this title

About the Author

Sophie Guellati-Salcedo, Ph.D., is a health psychologist and integrative practitioner whose work explores how perception, judgment, and meaning shape human experience. Drawing on over twenty-five years of clinical and research experience, she examines the intersection of psychology, consciousness, and emerging technologies.

Through the Expanded Awareness series, she invites readers to engage with their own processes of interpretation and decision-making in a rapidly changing world.

From the Back Cover

Artificial intelligence is not just a tool. It is becoming an environment.
Generative systems summarize knowledge, simulate reasoning, and respond with persuasive coherence. Inquiry feels faster. Friction gives way to synthesis.
But what happens to discernment when answers arrive already structured?
In this third volume of the Expanded Awareness series, health psychologist Sophie Guellati-Salcedo examines how interaction with AI reshapes perception, responsibility, and authorship. Through analysis and direct dialogue, she reveals how fluency can be mistaken for understanding and how authority can quietly migrate from the human mind to system-generated structure.
The question is not whether machines will become conscious. It is whether we will remain conscious in how we use them.

From the Inside Flap

The Expanded Awareness series follows a health psychologist's exploration of how we understand ourselves through science, psychology, and consciousness.
Each book opens a different layer of perception and self-inquiry, inviting readers to question assumptions, deepen discernment, and reconnect with their own inner authority.
Across the trilogy, the series moves from mind-body inquiry, to multidimensional awareness, to the evolving relationship between human consciousness and emerging technologies.

Edition details

• Publisher: SGS Quantum Press
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 196846512X
• ISBN 13: 9781968465124
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344