Hybrid Cognition and the Nature of Cognition in The AI Instinct

The article analyzes the fundamental difference between intelligence understood as computational capacity and cognition as a process of embodied experience. The author criticizes the identification of AGI with high benchmark results, pointing out that true cognition requires the coupling of perception, body, and environment, as well as bearing the consequences of actions. The text references the evolution of philosophical thought—from Cartesian dualism through behaviorism to the cognitive revolution—to demonstrate that modern AI architecture is the materialization of specific anthropological assumptions. The main thesis is a shift in attention from measurable competencies to the axis of experience and the subject's history, leading to the concept of hybrid cognition, where the boundary between the mind and its technological environment becomes blurred.