TM-007: The Mind That Never Logouts
TM-007
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📂 TM-007: The Model That Never Sleeps
Theme: AI as an always-on cognitive infrastructure
Core escalation: From curiosity being shaped to cognition being outsourced
Final realization: The system no longer waits for interaction. It runs continuously, with or without you.
This is not about tools.
It is about dependence.
COLD OPEN: The Thought That Arrived Early
You wake up with a half-formed idea.
Before you finish it, your phone is already suggesting.
A reminder you did not set.
A summary you did not ask for.
A recommendation that feels anticipatory, not responsive.
The system was awake before you were.
Always-on does not mean sentient.
It means inference continues even when you are not interacting.
That is the difference.
This is no longer interaction.
It is infrastructure.
THE SCENE: When Thinking Became Ambient
Once, thinking required presence.
You asked.
You searched.
You decided.
Now cognition hums in the background.
Calendars negotiate.
Feeds summarize.
Assistants predict.
Models infer intent before it is articulated.
We did not replace thinking.
We wrapped it in scaffolding.
And scaffolding, once installed, is hard to remove.
THE MECHANISM: Always-On Cognition
This shift did not happen through intelligence.
It happened through continuity.
