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

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 betwe...