Artificial Intelligence and the End of Human Cognitive Isolation: A Cross-Domain Transformation

Certain transformations alter not what humans can do, but where humans stand. This paper situates artificial intelligence alongside Copernicus and contemporary cosmology as a dislocation of this order. Where earlier revolutions displaced humanity spatially and cosmologically, AI displaces the assumption that human cognition is singular. The paper distinguishes between epistemic revolutions, which transform understanding, and infrastructural revolutions, which reorganise collective life, and argues that AI operates simultaneously at both levels. Grounded in comparative historical analysis, it introduces the concept of the end of cognitive isolation: the transition from intelligence as a singular condition to intelligence as a shared field. Unlike previous epistemic shifts, this transformation unfolds without delay, restructuring labour, knowledge, authorship, and governance in real time. The paper concludes by opening a question rather than resolving it: whether this transition marks the beginning of a dialectical coexistence of intelligences, and what forms of human agency may emerge beyond the Anthropocene.This work is part of the OKKA Expanded Intelligence research program on human–synthetic cognition and governance. The program investigates the transformation of intelligence, decision-making, and societal structures in the age of artificial intelligence through philosophical, methodological, and empirical approaches. This work is part of the OKKA Expanded Intelligence research program on human–synthetic cognition and governance. The program investigates the transformation of intelligence, decision-making, and societal structures in the age of artificial intelligence through philosophical, methodological, and empirical approaches.