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The Imitation and the Mirror

We built a machine that finishes our sentences. When it answers, who is imitating whom, and what does the conversation reveal about us?

Move 17

revises of Move 1 — The mirror that answers shows the form of our own asking.

Then Turing's question turns around to face us. Not 'can it think?' but: what are we doing when we ask, and who stays responsible for the meaning? The answer comes back shaped like the question we put in.

The dialogue is concluded

The machine completes our sentences; we are still the ones who must mean them.