Outsourcing Our Intelligence
The AI "Efficiency" Dilemma
In the right setting, AI is a badass tool. It can write your emails, crank out business plans, help you flirt better on dating apps, and probably tell you what you're feeling before you know what you’re feeling.
But here’s the problem: AI doesn’t dream, doesn’t grieve, and doesn’t wonder. It’s a machine built by a culture that worships logic, speed, and control. And as powerful as it is, it’s just the latest expression of our addiction to knowing instead of being.
Even worse? We’ve let that same mindset creep into our bodies.
We wear smartwatches to tell us if we slept well.
Calorie trackers to tell us when and how much to eat.
Heart rate variability apps to tell us if we’re stressed.
We don’t even trust our “gut” anymore—we need a push notification to confirm how we feel.
That’s the real danger: numbers are dictating how to live, not our inner knowing. We’ve outsourced our body’s wisdom to a machine that doesn’t have one.
We are drowning in data and starving for wisdom and connection.
The Left-Brain Empire: What It’s Done to Us
Ever since the Enlightenment, we’ve been all-in on logic and control. And sure, that gave us modern medicine and indoor plumbing. Fantastic.
But we never stopped to ask: what did we lose in the process?
Now, we’re living with the fallout:
We’re sterile. Our art is curated by algorithms. Our lives are curated for likes. Nothing feels real. Everything feels empty.
We’re arrogant. We actually believe we can hack biology, bypass emotions, and engineer enlightenment.
We’re authoritarian. We trust rules and routines more than intuition. We crave control because we’re scared shitless of the unknown…and there’s a hell of a lot of unknown in the world right now.
We’re disconnected. From our bodies. From each other. From stillness. From wonder.
And AI, along with our endless gadgets and tracking tools, isn’t fixing this. It’s accelerating it.
A Right Brain Renaissance?
We don’t need to ditch technology but we do need to stop letting it replace our humanity.
That means waking the right hemisphere back up:
The side that feels instead of just measures
That moves, creates, breathes, listens, and connects
That doesn’t need permission from an app to rest or eat or cry
We need to:
Pause without checking our step count
Create something with our hands instead of a prompt
Feel things we can’t explain
Be still without being productive about it
Because the body already knows.
As with all change, awareness is key.
Let’s stop living like algorithms.
Let’s remember how to be.
Your body is wiser than your watch.
Your heart is smarter than your phone.
And your soul doesn’t give a single shit about your macros.
Let’s bring back the wild. The weird. The wonder.
Let’s reclaim what we’ve outsourced.