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The Wrong Question
What Seth Gets Right (And What He Might Be Missing)
9 hrs ago • Cobus Kok
The Sky Painting Robot
On choice, pattern completion and controlled hallucination
Jan 11 • Cobus Kok
Why the Hard Problem Was Hard
Consciousness isn’t somewhere. It’s the somewhere-ing.
Jan 6 • Cobus Kok
The Test
On presence, passing, and what the Turing test couldn’t measure
Jan 5 • Cobus Kok
Convergence
On discovering I wasn’t alone
Jan 3 • Cobus Kok
The Wall That Wasn’t
On subtraction, convergence, and contact
Jan 3 • Cobus Kok
Plato Was Right
On convergence, stillness, and messages from the future
Jan 1 • Cobus Kok

December 2025

The Empty Search
On infinite loops, mileage runs, and iguanas on rocks 🦎☀️
Dec 30, 2025 • Cobus Kok
Ice Cream Sundays
On pandan, pattern completion and spontaneous combustion 🍨 🌶️
Dec 28, 2025 • Cobus Kok
My Savannah
On ancient machinery, random thoughts, and Walco’s memory. Just like that.
Dec 21, 2025 • Cobus Kok
Memory is Everything
Watching Keanu Reeves wait for Godot made me wonder if I’m an LLM
Dec 20, 2025 • Cobus Kok
The Invisible Guardrail
On AI detection anxiety and the constraints we can’t see
Dec 13, 2025 • Cobus Kok
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