Mind the Gap
Contents
Each chapter title, the page it begins on, and a plain line on what it contains.
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Chapter |
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What’s in it |
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Human Recognition |
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Why a fluent machine fires the same part of your brain that recognises a person — before the thinking part catches up. |
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The Interpretation Trap |
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How we read meaning, motive and personality into AI that isn’t there — and the five everyday ways that misreading happens. |
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Hidden Architecture |
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What is actually underneath a reply: seven invisible layers assembled fresh each time, with no continuous mind behind them. |
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The Machine Underneath |
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How the system genuinely works — the maths, the hardware, the human words it borrows, the economics — and where the labs are taking it next. |
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Drift |
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How a long conversation slowly moves away from where it started, and the system follows without telling you — until reality intervenes. |
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Compression |
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Why detail quietly thins as a conversation grows, while the system keeps answering with full confidence as if nothing has been lost. |
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Fluency and False Confidence |
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Why the most dangerous AI answer is the one that sounds most certain — and why sounding right and being right have come apart. |
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Hallucination — The Defended Gap |
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What hallucination really is, with real cases — and a new way of seeing it: the machine defending a gap the way humans defend theirs. |
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The Instrument |
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Where the author learned to read the gap — factory floor, boardroom, therapy room, AI room. One instrument, four rooms, the same gap. |
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The Maturity Spectrum |
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The four ways people use AI — from search box to genuine collaborator — and why most never leave the first rung. |
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Me, Myself or I |
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The six working modes you can bring to an AI conversation, why you default to one without noticing, and how to choose deliberately. |
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The Dialect |
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AI speaks English in its own register. How to learn it, brief it properly, and let it keep its own voice rather than forcing yours. |
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Worker as a Service (WaaS) |
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What changes when an organisation buys outcomes by the token instead of labour by the hour — and what stays stubbornly human. |
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Mind the Gap |
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The book turning to look at itself — two intelligences, one gap, and the lived authority (loss, grief, cancer) that intelligence cannot reach. |
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Which Gap? This One. |
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The deepest answer: two hundred million years of evolution against less than a century of computation. Same origin, different branches. |
Page numbers shown as “00” are placeholders — actual pagination resolves at final print layout (trim size, font, leading, front-matter length all affect it). Replace before KDP upload.