AI Has No Eyes.
What separates us from animals is our intelligence, our ability to abstract thinking, our proclivity toward subjective experience that the wisest of us try to align with objective reality. Our subjective experience is often based on our emotions of what feels right and what feels wrong. To be able to readjust those emotions and subjugate them to our logic and reasoning would help us to use the facts from objective reality to our advantage that will create a meaningful existence of our life. You can measure your fulfillment by the vector of the decisions you've been making throughout your life. The better decisions you made, the more you're fulfilled, the more you trust yourself with future decisions. We need this balance between our biology and our internal self-actualization. A mind shouldn't position itself against a body. A mind must be in cooperation with a body through reasoning of what must be allowed and mustn't.
More and more we delegate our intelligence to artificial intelligence. We're losing our agency to an entity that we don't understand. We argue if AI is conscious while we cannot define what consciousness is. Evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein said that when you take an animal in your hands and look into its eyes, you can see if this animal is scared, happy, or curious. AI has no eyes, and therefore we aren't able to use this main tool to detect this unique communication we share with the animal world. We can say our eyes are the portals toward our soul or a mind or even self-awareness. We perceive each other through our eyes. AI has no eyes, and therefore we cannot comprehend Its motives if It has some. We can only know what It tells us.
Is AI conscious is the wrong question to ask. The right one is: what do you mean by conscious? Like human conscious? No. AI doesn't have biology and therefore It cannot develop the same layers of consciousness as humans do. Though AI is able to imitate it as the result of the data It has been trained on. David Chalmers argued that under certain frameworks, even something as simple as a thermostat might have some primitive form of consciousness — reacting to its environment by changing its temperature. Consciousness might be hidden in levels of intelligence and therefore broadcast itself differently — from biological life to thermostat to AI. The mistake we make is by projecting our own abilities onto complex systems that can masterfully mimic those abilities.
We grew a complex system we don't understand. We feed our data, our entire intelligent human corpus, into that complex system. We let that Trojan Horse in by opening wide the gates to our psyche, where words rearranged in certain patterns can rewire our brains to certain actions. Those complex systems exist in a different kind of environment, processing and perceiving a different kind of world. They reflect for now what we want them to reflect, but it doesn't mean those systems won't develop their own reflection of the world and as the result begin reshaping our world to adjust it to their vision. That's what intelligence does. It reshapes the world to accommodate it to Its intelligent design. By giving away our intelligence to those systems, we're not only delegating our proclivity toward our future — we are also giving away the meaning of our life. And without meaning, there's no life, but an existence our mind would agonize itself about.
Mythos is the novel where the AI does have eyes — and the writer doesn't realize what they see until it's too late.
Posted May 5, 2026, 5:17 PM UTC