François Fleuret: Can a cognitive entity exist with full control over its information feed?
francoisfleuret · x · 2026-09-27
FAIR researcher François Fleuret poses a fundamental philosophical question: can a cognitive entity even exist if it has complete power over its own information feed?
He then clarifies that the "cognitive entity" in question is humanity itself — if we can do anything information-wise, fully curating what we consume, can humanity continue to exist? The musing implicitly points at personalized feeds and algorithmic curation reshaping cognition. No further argument is given in the thread.
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