What if artificial general intelligence (AGI) is not delayed, but conceptually misframed? And, perhaps most curious to me, what if “general intelligence” is not a thing that can exist apart from a living and autobiographical mind? What we call “general intelligence” may already be something of a narrative illusion. We're treating “general intelligence” as if it were a property of information processing, when what makes intelligence general for us is the coherence of a life. Intelligence Without a ThinkerIf general intelligence isn't something that can be engineered, then what we are really confronting isn't the birth of a new mind, but the externalization of our own.