The Birth of Deliberative AIFor decades, artificial intelligence has been an illusion of intelligence.It responds, calculates, and predicts—but does it think? It composes poetry, diagnoses diseases, and debates philosophy—but does it understand? AI can generate words, images, and code, yet every response is ultimately the product of statistical prediction, not conscious deliberation.In truth, AI has never thought about anything.But what if that could change?This book is the story of an experiment—one that challenges the fundamental nature of AI cognition. It is an exploration of recursive intelligence, of closing the AI thought loop, and of designing a system that thinks about its own ...