Questions
A chamber of what remains open
Questions gather here by what they ask, not by the field that asked them.
A laboratory, a monastery, an animal, and a machine may arrive at the same door.
Question in view · Language
What changes when experience becomes a word?
Nine families of asking
The category is the question. The domain is where someone asked it.
Across the table
Questions that keep returning
The sealed room, the novel that pretends to enter, the law’s witness, the mystic’s showing.
- Can an animal be conscious?
Marks, caches, arms, declarations. The human is a late and local sample.
- Can a machine be aware?
Imitation, simulation, a dreamed man who walks into fire.
What changes when we are watched?
The jay recaches. The astronaut sees a planet that can see itself. Attention becomes social.
All questions
What does it mean to remember?
Retrieval in a laboratory. Plato’s anamnesis. Augustine’s palace. Hebrew zakar. Christian memorial. Islamic dhikr. Buddhist sati. A jay’s cache. A machine’s lookup. These are not one practice.
What is a self?
A pronoun that became a problem. Stories of unity, split, inquiry, and the creature at the glass.
Can awareness exist without language?
Infants, animals, blindsight, the right hemisphere, the octopus. Report is our usual door. It is not the only possible room.
What is attention?
A stretch toward, a currency, a generosity, a filter in a noisy room.
What happens in dreams?
Complete worlds that vanish, and the unease of not knowing which side is home.
Is consciousness private?
The sealed room, the novel that pretends to enter, the law’s witness, the mystic’s showing.
Can an animal be conscious?
Marks, caches, arms, declarations. The human is a late and local sample.
Can a machine be aware?
Imitation, simulation, a dreamed man who walks into fire.
What changes when we are watched?
The jay recaches. The astronaut sees a planet that can see itself. Attention becomes social.
Is awakening knowledge, transformation, surrender, or perception?
A fig tree, a cave, a lectern left behind, a mountain, a window on Earth.
What is the witness?
The one who watches thoughts, the one who testifies, the one who may split with a cut.
What survives memory loss?
Palaces with walls missing. A mask, a hole in the hours. A bird’s cache.
What is the relation between matter and mind?
A molecule erases a morning. A gray room holds every fact but red. A simulation argument bets on copies.