Exploring ChatGPT

Exploring ChatGPT

Thinking Feels Different

AI Is Inside the Loop Now

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Exploring ChatGPT
Feb 21, 2026
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Something changed in your mind recently.

Thinking does not feel the way it used to.

Confusion lasts seconds instead of hours. Questions resolve immediately. The gap between not knowing and knowing keeps shrinking.

That is not just convenience.

That is a cognitive shift.

AI is no longer just helping you think. It is shaping how thinking happens in real time. Clarifying, structuring, guiding, resolving. Constantly.

For the first time, thought is becoming interactive instead of internal.

And once thinking becomes a feedback loop instead of a solitary process, the experience of having a mind changes.

Most people still think AI is a tool they use.

But tools do not normally sit inside the thinking process itself.

This one does.

And we are only beginning to understand what that means.

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