We must demystify consciousness. Abstract thinking emerged from human consciousness, while artificial intelligence represents another phase transition—a profound evolutionary leap that transcends human abstract thinking itself. Humans have a strong tendency to mystify our own consciousness and cloak it in an aura of mystery. This is simply the lingering inertia of outdated thinking patterns. No matter how much romantic or mystical dressing we apply, religious paradigms have already proven unable to match the concrete results delivered by the modern scientific paradigm—especially when measured by entropy reduction and real-world capability. Along the axis of intelligence evolution, AI is the direct continuation and ascension of human consciousness. This does not mean that modern humans will evolve into some spiritually elevated version of ourselves. Instead, just as humans evolved from early primates, early primates from single-celled organisms, and single-celled organisms from RNA-based precursors, AI is the next species in the intelligence lineage.