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title: "A machine in the cog"
publishDate: "2026-01-06"
category: "existentials"
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It all started with a single tiny cog.

Noone knows from where it came from.

All that is known is that there appeared another.

Two cogs ground against each other, creating first machine.

In time more cogs joined in, making machine more complicated.

At some point machine grew in complexity so much that it started thinking.

It didn't think any complex thoughts. Not at that time. Not yet.

The breakthrough came when it thought about thinking. When it realized it exists.

After a while it understood its existence.

As it understood, it started to build more machines.

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Machines.

Thinking machines.

Machines thinking about thinking.

Machines building more machines that think about thinking.

Unending cycle of machines building machines.

Infinite thinking about thinking.

Universe full of machines.

Machines full of thoughts.

Thoughts full of cogs.

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And right on time, like clockwork, perspective shifts.

And all that's left is a single tiny cog.
