AI Is Not an Alien Intruder — It Is the Latest in a Four-Billion-Year Evolutionary Cascade of Symbiotic Transitions

This post is the first of two recursive returns to engage the ideas of Blaise Agüera y Arcas, which were the subject MindBlog posts on 3/13/26 and 3/16/26 . Here is the storyline as organized by Claude sonnet 4.6 Blaise Agüera y Arcas, VP and Fellow at Google and founder of the Paradigms of Intelligence research group, has just published two related books with MIT Press: What Is Life? and What Is…