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

<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.

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.