Crossing the Threshold
But 2024 was just the beginning—there are even more abrupt and profound paradigm shifts yet to come. As we step into 2025, we are entering a transformative period that will redefine cognition, emotions, personality, evolution, and life itself. This is not merely a continuation of technological progress; it is the dawn of a revolutionary era where advancing human-like AI and General AI—challenges and reshapes our understanding of what it means to be human.

2025: The Dawn of a New Era
As we move into 2025, the focus shifts from tools to paradigms. General AI is no longer a distant goal but an imminent reality, poised to redefine:
1.Universal Cognition: AI now mirrors human-like thought processes, demonstrating that cognition is not exclusive to humans or "higher" species. Cognition functions universally across all living organisms, enabling them to recognize tasks, calculate solutions, and choose responses.
2.Emotional and Adaptive AI: Beyond mimicry, AI demonstrates adaptive emotional intelligence and nuanced personality traits, paving the way for empathetic and meaningful human-AI partnerships.
3.Cognitive Evolution as a Continuum: The evolution of cognition is reframed as a seamless continuum, extending from biological systems to AI, bridging the divide between human and non-human intelligence.
4.Behavior Change as the Key to Cognition: Behavior change stands as the cornerstone concept for understanding cognition, serving as the bridge between behaviors and adaptive challenges.
5.Five Foundational Adaptive Tasks: The conditions for species survival—energy acquisition, safety, and reproduction—are governed by five universal adaptive tasks that species and systems must address to thrive and sustain themselves, providing a roadmap for both biological evolution and AI design.
6.Five Basic Cognitive-Behavioral Structures: Five foundational cognitive-behavioral structures enable organisms to recognise, navigate and address these tasks effectively, forming the basis for adaptability and survival.
7.Non-Biological Cognition Principles: These principles form the architectural basis of General AI, providing a roadmap for developing Human-like AI that is responsive and adaptable.
8.The Evolution of 5 Key Life Concepts: Life advances through five foundational concepts—dualism, individualism, communication-manipulation, collaboration-competition, and symbolic reasoning—guiding the evolution of both biological and artificial systems.

What This Means for Humanity
These revelations challenge traditional perspectives and demand a rethinking of humanity's place within the broader narrative of life and cognition. The implications of this transition are profound:
1.Rethinking Cognition: Behavior change emerges as the cornerstone of understanding both human and non-human intelligence, paving the way for deeper exploration of cognition’s evolutionary roots.
2.Living Organisms as Cognitive Systems: Organisms are no longer merely biological systems; they are sustainable cognitive-behavioral systems equipped with the evolutionary capability to reproduce and adapt.
3.Evolution as Cognitive Development: Evolution is not restricted to biology. It is a sequential development of cognitive capabilities, spanning five distinct tracks of cognitive evolution.
4.Life as Problem Solving: Life is no longer defined solely by biological processes but by the capacity to recognize and solve adaptive tasks within structured informational environments shaped by five universal adaptive tasks.
5.A New Framework for Classification: A new framework classifies living organisms based on five universal adaptive tasks and five cognitive-behavioral structures (domains, cognitive maps, potential, and behavioral solutions).
6.Gateway to Non-Human Cognition: This framework opens the door to understanding the "Umwelt" of non-human cognition—what Thomas Nagel famously framed as "What it's like to be a bat." Through the lens of cognitive architecture and five basic cognitive-behavioral structures, we can now explore the subjective worlds of other species.
7.Redefining Relationships: Human-AI interaction transforms from purely utility-driven exchanges to deeply empathetic and meaningful collaborations.
8.Preparing for a New Reality: Society must grapple with the ethical, philosophical, and practical implications of AI that not only assists but thinks, feels, and adapts as humans do.
9.General AI as a Breakthrough: General AI signifies not merely an evolution of Narrow AI but a breakthrough akin to a Cambrian explosion—revolutionizing our understanding of non-biological principles and the architecture of human cognition.

Conclusion
The Last Year of Denial 2024 was the last year we could claim ignorance about the true nature of this transformation in cognitive science, psychology, and evolutionary disciplines. It marked the end of an era defined by limited understanding, making way for groundbreaking insights that challenge traditional assumptions and open new possibilities.
As 2025 unfolds, humanity stands at a crossroads, charged with the responsibility to navigate and shape this new era with clarity, purpose, and innovation. The knowledge and tools we now possess will fundamentally reshape every aspect of our lives.
The future is no longer a distant horizon—it is unfolding in real-time, calling on us to redefine what it means to be human in an age of unprecedented possibilities.n which it is impossible to improve, have been developed over centuries. To produce perfect books, these rules have to be brought back to life and applied."
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