Prompted Minds: Cognition, Offloading and the Illusion of AI Understanding - or How Context, Bias and Models Shape the Future of Thinking

AI systems do not understand us. They simulate understanding - and we rarely notice the difference. Prompted Minds explores how artificial intelligence is quietly reshaping human cognition: how we think, remember, decide, and know. Through the lens of neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and AI research, Roger Basler de Roca examines what happens when we increasingly delegate thinking to systems that operate through statistical pattern matching rather than genuine comprehension. The result is a clear-eyed guide to the most consequential cognitive shift in human history - and a practical framework for navigating it with intention, critical distance, and intellectual sovereignty.