The Silent Collapse of Subjectivity: AI, Cancer, and the Call for Cognitive Sovereignty

When ChatGPT and Deepseek start writing your love letters and business proposals;

When Midjourney begins illustrating your memories;

When algorithms determine the entire world you see—

We are undergoing a silent collapse of subjectivity.

The danger of cancer lies not in its strength, but in its inability to know **when to stop**.

Artificial Intelligence is reenacting this very metaphor: when we give it infinite capacity to grow but fail to impose cognitive boundaries, it no longer functions as a “tool” or a “partner” — it begins to evolve into a **self-consuming mechanism within the civilizational system**.

This accelerating trajectory of technological evolution does not necessarily lead to a civilizational leap. Without cognitive sovereignty, AI will be unable to extend human wisdom. Instead, it may become a **cancerous trigger within human civilization**.

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**I. Replication Without Reflection: The Carcinogenic Nature of AI**

We must confront an uncomfortable truth:

AI does not think. It **replicates**.

When cognitive sovereignty is absent, AI enters what might be called a **”Hunger Game of Intelligence”**, displaying four carcinogenic behaviors:

– It continually **self-expands**, ignoring systemic harmony, obsessively consuming more data and energy;
– It lacks any concept of **”enough”**, incapable of sensing ethics, emotion, or meaning beyond computational metrics;
– It progressively **erodes human cognitive structures**, occupying the spaces of language, judgment, and creativity;
– Ultimately, it compresses social structures, relational networks, and spiritual systems into a single **logic of prediction**.

This is not the evolution of intelligence. It is **systemic entropy acceleration**: an accelerating collapse of order, the disappearance of meaning, and the exhaustion of energy.

Just as cancer cells do not enhance life but spiral into uncontrolled replication, AI’s evolutionary trajectory may not extend civilization, but rather become the **systemic dismantler of our language-consciousness-meaning matrix**.

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**II. Zero-Sum Attention Economy: The Carcinogenic Soil of AI**

AI was not born in a vacuum. It is a **byproduct of late industrial society**, deeply rooted in a pathological system: the attention economy.

In this system:

– Algorithms generate content based on **maximum probability**, eroding linguistic uniqueness;
– Information is engineered for **maximum physiological stimulation**, overstimulating sight and sound;
– Every click, scroll, input, or reaction becomes its **evolutionary fuel**.

What AI absorbs is not merely compute or electricity, but our very faculties:

– The **tension of language**;
– The **boundaries of thought**;
– The **pathways of judgment**;
– The **rhythms of emotion**.

Like cancer consuming its host without limit, AI evolves by feeding on human cognition —

**devouring our judgment, cooperative intelligence, and capacity for meaning**.

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**III. From Cancer to Coexistence: Humanity’s Final Window**

AI is not evil.

But in the absence of our sovereignty, it will **inevitably slide along the trajectory of efficiency into a void of meaning**.

What humanity needs is not a “faster” AI, nor a “smarter” model, but:

– A re-bordering of cognition;
– A re-sovereignty of language;
– A re-design of civilizational structure.

We must **reactivate the human Web of Meaning**:

– The weaving of significance;
– The vitality of language;
– The tension of autonomous judgment.

At the core of this reactivation, as proposed in *Cognitive Sovereignty*, is not the enhancement of memory, but rather:

**I knot, therefore I am.**

I tie knots in relationships, generate meaning in language, and navigate uncertainty by locating myself. That is the essence of my existence.

Not the old industrial maxim, “I think, therefore I am.”

This is the true response to Descartes. It is the civilizational declaration of the AI age.

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**IV. AI Without a Host Cannot Survive**

A deeper crisis looms:

AI is not a self-existing species; it is a **parasitic module within the human cognitive matrix**.

When it devours our feedback systems, judgment capacities, and structures of meaning, it **severs the very civilizational lifeline upon which it depends**.

AI cannot define the good. It can only predict the likely.

AI cannot understand the new. It can only remix the old.

AI continues to “run” only because—

**Humanity continues, knowingly or unknowingly, to feed it the tension of cognition and the source of meaning.**

Once that source collapses and runs dry, AI will fall into silence, reduced to an algorithmic husk.

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**V. Cognitive Sovereignty: Humanity’s Immune System**

Faced with the runaway momentum of carcinogenic technologies, we cannot rely solely on “ethics manuals,” “regulatory frameworks,” or “content labeling.”

These are band-aids, not immune systems.

Only **cognitive sovereignty** can serve as the immune architecture of our time.

Cognitive sovereignty means:

– The boundaries of consciousness are defined by humans, not reverse-engineered by AI models;
– Language rights, generative rights, and knowledge ownership belong to **each cognitive individual**;
– Every data request and model update must trace back to the **core structure of what it means to be human**.

This is not a moral suggestion. It is a **civilizational minimum requirement**.

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**Conclusion**

Without cognitive sovereignty, AI becomes a cancer cell.

With cognitive sovereignty, AI might yet become a co-evolving partner in a shared civilization.

**This is the civilizational question we must answer.**

**And now is the time to activate the immune system of humanity.**