Every day, without even noticing, we scroll, click, like… and feed our minds a lukewarm gruel of recycled information, mass-produced and drained of its marrow.
It is no longer only AI going round in circles in its own soup of synthetic content: it is us. Our brain, once curious, nimble and fond of complexity, now settles for digital crumbs, digested for us by machines.
The result?
An impoverished, standardised way of thinking, which is gradually losing its ability to tell true from false, the profound from the superficial.
This is not science fiction. This is about you. About me. About all of us. And about this invisible feast where humanity gorges itself on emptiness, one easy piece of content at a time. Ready to look squarely at what we are becoming?
Find the full transcript of this episode, along with all the sources and plenty more, at: Cognitive autophagy, when humans feed on impoverished content