5AM on the trails. A deer dashes across my path. Later, orange deer marks appear along the road. Two bees move in circles above me. Not chasing. Not fleeing. Something closer to exchange. Hours later, one finds its way inside my clothes and stings my leg.

I keep thinking about these moments as information. Not because I believe nature is secretly sending me coded instructions. I’m interested in something simpler: before we had screens, dashboards and algorithms, humans were already reading the world.

Movement meant something. Weather meant something. Animals, dreams, plants, stars, scent, sound. Intelligence wasn’t only what we knew. It was what we noticed.

Years ago in California, I watched a spider sit motionless outside my patio every day. Then the sunlight hit at the right angle and suddenly I could see her web stretching toward the tree. She wasn’t still at all. Her world was moving through the web.

Maybe AI is something like that. The octopus has a brain, but its intelligence extends through its arms. The spider senses through her web. Humans keep building extensions too — language, books, cameras, search engines, models. AI may become our most powerful extension yet.

But the real question isn’t whether it becomes more human. It’s whether it makes humans more themselves. More curious. More perceptive. More capable of following an idea somewhere we couldn’t reach alone.

Information has always been everywhere. What changes is the medium.

Choose yours.