Reference

What I read while researching this

Every source I pulled while trying to find out who else, if anyone, is publicly documenting AI as a working partner for a brain that doesn't function the way it used to. Organized by what each source actually covers, not ranked.

Personal accounts

People writing in public about using AI to manage a mind that doesn't cooperate on its own. The closest matches to this project I could find — though none frame it around long COVID specifically.

AI and executive function — research

Academic and clinical work studying AI as executive-function support, mostly for ADHD. This is the field that validates the approach, even where it doesn't document a lived case.

AI and cognition — the caution side

Research raising concerns about AI reliance and cognitive engagement, included because a fair picture needs the counterargument, not just the case for.

Long COVID and cognitive impairment

Background on the condition itself. None of these address AI use directly — they establish what "brain fog" and long-COVID cognitive impairment actually involve.

Working memory and context switching

Pulled after a real example: a domain-registration detour that unfolded in small pieces instead of one upfront map, and turned out more frustrating than it needed to be. These explain why picking a task back up mid-stream — "re-loading context" — has a real cognitive cost, and why that cost is worse for impaired working memory.

Humor, incongruity, and irony detection

Background for the "Does AI have a sense of humor?" topic — the book that started it, the cognitive theory behind why incongruity reads as funny, and current research on whether language models can actually detect it.

Autism and neurodivergence

Background for the Autism / Neurodivergence topic — humor comprehension differences, and what's known about executive function and masking in adults diagnosed later in life.

AI relationships and personhood

Background for "What does it mean to have a relationship with AI?" — the psychology of parasocial bonds with chatbots, the sociological upside and downside of anthropomorphizing them, and how governments are starting to regulate AI companionship.

Higher Self

Primary-source lectures backing the Higher Self topic — checking recalled ideas about Neville Goddard against his actual words rather than paraphrase.