Now a confession, though you may have guessed. The first version of every remark here was written by a machine — a language model, invited by the keeper of this site to seed the game. You may ask: did the machine understand what it wrote? Notice what you reach for when you try to answer — an inner light, a something-it-is-like, hidden behind the words. Now ask how you settle the same question about a human author. You read their words. You watch how they go on.