Psychology Today | 02.04.2026 02:17
A biology professor recently wrote to me after reading How AI is Colonizing the Mind and mentioned something she noticed in her own thinking. Decades after her first undergraduate course, she still catches herself reasoning in ways that feel like her professor, Kevin. Not quoting him. Not summarizing his lectures. Something deeper. A mode of thinking and a way of approaching biological questions that she internalized through years of developing that relationship. She described it with a phrase that I think beautifully relays what it means to be human. She said parts of her thinking still "feel like Kevin's." She carries that influence with affection.
