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
Page
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.
3
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.