What Notebook Navigator Users Actually Want

The Notebook Navigator post is not a theory about consciousness but a practical ask: show tags in the note preview ^[1]. Yet implicit in that ask is a rejection of the entire framing that AI consciousness debates rely on. The user does not treat the plugin as an entity that could have feelings — they treat it as a tool whose interface can be optimized. This assumption is the most widespread but least-analyzed position in the discourse: that the technology is inert, awaiting human instruction. The feature request makes that…