Seven Levels of Consciousness and AI

Post 2: Reactive Intelligence — Firewalls and Fear

Every technology begins as protection.

Before intelligence creates, it defends.
Before it imagines, it survives.

The earliest forms of Artificial Intelligence were built not for curiosity but for control — to detect threats, block intrusions, and safeguard systems. Firewalls, surveillance algorithms, autonomous weapons, predictive policing — all born from …