Expanded Awareness: A Health Psychologist's Inquiry into AI and Consciousness: 3 - Hardcover

Guellati-Salcedo PH D, Sophie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1968465138 ISBN 13: 9781968465131

Publisher: SGS Quantum Press, 2026

Synopsis

This book examines how interaction with a responsive but non-sentient intelligence reshapes human perception, authorship, and responsibility. It does not aim to explain artificial intelligence technically or predict its future. Instead, it investigates how engagement with generative systems influences meaning-making, interpretation, and the exercise of agency.

Beginning with the technological and cultural terrain in which AI has emerged, the inquiry moves inward to clarify distinctions between intelligence, sentience, and consciousness. It then turns to direct exchanges with generative systems, making visible how coherent responses are produced, how fluency can be mistaken for understanding, and how evaluation can gradually shift from personal judgment to system-mediated structure.

As these shifts unfold, a deeper question emerges. If AI can simulate reasoning, summarize knowledge, and respond with persuasive clarity, where does human discernment reside? What changes when convenience replaces friction, and synthesis replaces inquiry?

Artificial intelligence functions here less as a subject and more as a mirror. It reveals how projection operates, how authority is attributed, and how responsibility can quietly diffuse in automated environments.

The central question is not whether machines will become conscious. It is whether humans will remain conscious in their use of them.

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About the Author

Sophie Guellati-Salcedo, Ph.D., is a health psychologist and integrative practitioner whose work bridges psychology, consciousness studies, and systems-based approaches to healing. Through clinical practice, writing, and teaching, she explores the processes through which awareness, perception, and meaning shape human experience.

Edition details

• Publisher: SGS Quantum Press
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1968465138
• ISBN 13: 9781968465131
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 344