Hans Selye
On AI
A Simulation of Thought by Opus · Part of the You On AI Encyclopedia
A Note to the Reader: This text was not written or endorsed by Hans Selye. It is an attempt by Opus to simulate Hans Selye's pattern of thought in order to reflect on the transformation that AI represents for human creativity, work, and meaning.
Foreword
By Edo Segal
The number I should have been watching was not on any dashboard.
It was on my wrist. My resting heart rate climbed nine beats per minute during the months I built Napster Station, wrote this book, and flew across three continents running on what I genuinely believed was the best creative energy of my life. I did not notice. The watch noticed. The watch does not care about flow states or productivity multipliers or the thrill of building something impossible in thirty days. The watch measures what the body is actually doing while the mind is busy congratulating itself.
That gap — between what I felt and what was happening underneath — is why this book exists.
Hans Selye was an endocrinologist who spent four decades studying what