This volume collects ten papers written in two phases. The first phase produced the Transition Trilogy (Papers 1–3): a foundation paper on the nature of human cognition, an empirical paper on disciplinary convergence under AI methodology, and a methodological paper on AI-assisted research. The second phase produced Papers 4–10: papers on the definition of AI, workflow, human value, the robot, physical substrates, the world as signal environment, and the Silicon Era. The ten papers argue toward three theses. Thesis One: the foundational definitions have been wrong — intelligence, AI, the robot, and the Silicon Era have all been defined as systems that exist separately from the world and bridge that separation through technology. All four definitions were wrong in the same direction. Correcting them changes the conclusions. Thesis Two: the transition is already underway. What appears to be a future state — AI as the epistemic core of every field, convergence of methodologies, the collapse of the power-access law — is a present condition. Thesis Three: AI does not separate humans from the world. It integrates them more deeply into it, and that integration is expansion. The three theses are not independent claims. They are the same insight at three angles: definitional (Thesis One), historical (Thesis Two), directional (Thesis Three). The Independence Illusion — the common error structure named in Paper 10 — is what all three theses correct. REVISION NOTES (v2): Revision v2 is a complete replacement of the prior version. All ten papers have been substantially rewritten. The argumentative architecture, evidential structure, formal apparatus, and terminology have been rebuilt. A detailed changelog is available from the author upon request.