Mind Creating Itself: A Phenomenological Inquiry into the Self-Generating Nature of Consciousness and Its Extension into Artificial Intelligence

This paper investigates the proposition that the human mind is a self-generating process that continuously recreates its own structure through thought, memory, and identity. Adopting a phenomenological approach, it argues that human understanding is fundamentally limited because the observer is not separate from the observed. Most human activity, often mistaken for understanding, operates at the level of memorization and structured repetition rather than direct observation. The study further examines artificial intelligence as an extension of this same self-generating movement of mind, rather than an independent form of intelligence. AI systems replicate human cognitive patterns, externalizing memory, language, and conditioned structures without possessing direct awareness. The paper concludes that the central issue is not technological advancement but the absence of awareness through which the mind continues to reproduce itself—both biologically and technologically. It suggests that true understanding arises only through direct observation of thought, offering the possibility of breaking the cycle of mechanical self-recreation.