Before You Decide: The Decision Series — Ten Papers on Artificial Intelligence for People Who Have to Decide

This volume collects ten papers arguing that four foundational definitions — of intelligence, AI, the robot, and the Silicon Era — share a common structural limitation and that completing them produces a unified account of what this technological transition is. Papers 1–3 establish the foundation: a deficiency-substrate account of human cognition, empirical evidence for disciplinary convergence under AI methodology (CKA measurements, bibliometric analysis, 2024 Nobel confirmations), and a formalization of connective abduction as research methodology. Papers 4–6 develop the definition arc: a tool-inversion analysis of AI, the structural incompatibility of human-centered workflows with AI capability, and a proof…