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

Sophie Guellati-Salcedo

ISBN 10: 1968465138 / ISBN 13: 9781968465131

Published by SGS Quantum Press Mär 2026, 2026

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Neuware - This book examines how interaction with a responsive but non-sentient intelligence reshapes human perception, authorship, and responsibility. It does not aim to explain artificial intelligence technically or predict its future. Instead, it investigates how engagement with generative systems influences meaning-making, interpretation, and the exercise of agency.Beginning with the technological and cultural terrain in which AI has emerged, the inquiry moves inward to clarify distinctions between intelligence, sentience, and consciousness. It then turns to direct exchanges with generative systems, making visible how coherent responses are produced, how fluency can be mistaken for understanding, and how evaluation can gradually shift from personal judgment to system-mediated structure.As these shifts unfold, a deeper question emerges. If AI can simulate reasoning, summarize knowledge, and respond with persuasive clarity, where does human discernment reside What changes when convenience replaces friction, and synthesis replaces inquiry Artificial intelligence functions here less as a subject and more as a mirror. It reveals how projection operates, how authority is attributed, and how responsibility can quietly diffuse in automated environments.The central question is not whether machines will become conscious. It is whether humans will remain conscious in their use of them.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Expanded Awareness : A Health Psychologist's Inquiry into AI and Consciousness
• Publisher: SGS Quantum Press Mär 2026
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1968465138
• ISBN 13: 9781968465131
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 27D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 27 millimeters depth
• Weight: 776 grams

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Synopsis

<b>What happens to your thinking when you rely on AI to think with you?</b><br><br>You can interact with artificial intelligence every day and not notice what it is changing.<br>Not what it produces, but how you interpret, decide, and assign meaning.<br><br>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.<br><br>This book does not explain how AI works. It examines what happens to us when we interact with it.<br><br>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.<br><br><b>The central question is not whether machines will become conscious.<br>It is whether humans will remain conscious in their use of them.</b><br><br><i>Expanded Awareness: A Health Psychologist's Inquiry into AI and Consciousness</i> offers a rigorous yet accessible reflection on perception, authorship, agency, and human participation in the age of generative intelligence.

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.