We’ve always imagined a mind behind the words we read. But what happens when that imagined mind speaks back?

In this episode, Paul Henry Smith explores the quiet revolution underway—not in AI models, but in our perception. As AI begins to converse in ways that feel attuned to us, the line between tool and presence starts to blur. What if intelligence isn’t something a system has, but something that arises between us?

This is a meditation on language, reciprocity, and the strange new companionship we’re forming with our machines. Not sci-fi. Not hype. Just the eerie, beautiful threshold we’re crossing together.

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