Prompt
Thinking

In an era when machines can generate answers to any question, what remains specifically human? The answer lies in the ability to formulate the right questions. Prompt Thinking proposes a reversal: instead of worrying that machines think like us, we should ask how we can think better with them.

If Hypnocracy is the diagnosis of our condition—the algorithmic trance that dissolves the boundary between true and false—Prompt Thinking is the navigation method. It does not promise awakening from the trance, but conscious movement within it: inhabiting simulations as one inhabits a lucid dream, without pretending to unmask them but without being possessed by them either.

The book traverses the history of philosophy to show how questioning has always been the engine of thought. The history of philosophy is a history of prompts: stimuli, provocations, questions that open spaces for reflection.

Prompt Thinking is not just a theory: it is a practice. I teach it, and I use it daily in my own work—including in the writing of Hypnocracy, where Claude and ChatGPT served as critical interlocutors throughout the creative process.

The course explores the deep structures of questioning: what makes a prompt effective? Why do certain formulations open spaces for reflection while others close them? How can we use artificial intelligence not as a substitute for thought, but as its amplifier?