Gradual Cognitive Externalization: A Framework for Understanding How Ambient Intelligence Externalizes Human Cognition

arXiv:2604.04387v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Developers are publishing AI agent skills that replicate a colleague's communication style, encode a supervisor's mentoring heuristics, or preserve a person's behavioral repertoire beyond biological death. To explain why, we propose Gradual Cognitive Externalization (GCE), a framework arguing that human cognitive functions are migrating into digital substrates through ambient intelligence co-adaptation rather than mind uploading. GCE rests on the b