The question Turing left us

Turing didn't answer the question he asked. He reframed it, made it testable, pushed it into the open. Then left it there.

Seventy-five years later, we have machines that write, diagnose, translate, compose. They hold conversations that fool people routinely. By almost any external measure, they perform.

We still don't know what thinking is.

That's not a failure. It's what the frontier actually looks like: not a gap waiting to be filled, but a question that keeps sharpening the closer you get to it. Every time you talk to a language model and feel that familiar hesitation (is it understanding, or only imitating?) you're sitting exactly where Turing left us.

That's where Turing left us. The honest answer is: so do we.