My response to Colin Koopman’s “Human-Data Coupling: Informational Personhood & Artificial Intelligence Through Gilbert Simondon’s Philosophy of Technology” (2025) begins and ends from a place of admiration, and thus I must extend my gratitude to the editors of Social Epistemology for this invitation and for the opportunity to acknowledge my debt to Koopman’s thinking in the hope of advancing it even further. … [please read below the rest of the article].