Beth

64% of workers who expressed worry about AI reported typically feeling tense or stressed during their workday.

It's not just a worry about your job being replaced.

It's a constant state of cognitive vigilance.

Yes.

And this moves the argument from a matter of preference to one of physical necessity.

The data points to excessive digital use leading to a measurable reduction in gray matter density in the brain's frontal cortex.

So the frontal cortex is often called the CEO of the brain.

It is absolutely vital for higher cognitive functions.

We're talking decision making, emotional regulation, planning, impulse control, all the big stuff.

Precisely.

And if you think of gray matter density as the richness and thickness of the neural networks in that area, a reduction suggests that the brain's primary filtering and processing mechanism is subtly being worn down.

Exactly that.

The research highlights that Internet addiction specifically has been associated with a reduced attention span, poor working memory and most critically impaired decision making, particularly when it comes to risk assessment.

Wow.

So if the constant pressure and stimulation of the cognitive grid is eroding the physical basis of our ability to make sound, self-directed choices, then this debate is no longer about privacy.

It's about preserving our very capacity for genuine freedom.

That's the philosophical underpinning of Sighted A. Privacy is enshrined in over 185 national constitutions.

It's recognized by the UN Declaration as essential to dignity.

When you lose privacy, you lose the necessary space to develop an authentic self, free from all that external monitoring and judgment.

Surveillance capitalism, as it's documented in our sources, is an economic system, but it's one structured around the commodification of human experience itself.