Threads
Questions that will not stay in one discipline
Each thread gathers stories from distant rooms. They are not made to agree. The gathering is the work.
01
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.
02
What is a self?
A pronoun that became a problem. Stories of unity, split, inquiry, and the creature at the glass.
03
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.
04
What is attention?
A stretch toward, a currency, a generosity, a filter in a noisy room.
05
What happens in dreams?
Complete worlds that vanish, and the unease of not knowing which side is home.
06
Is consciousness private?
The sealed room, the novel that pretends to enter, the law’s witness, the mystic’s showing.
07
Can an animal be conscious?
Marks, caches, arms, declarations. The human is a late and local sample.
08
Can a machine be aware?
Imitation, simulation, a dreamed man who walks into fire.
09
What changes when we are watched?
The jay recaches. The astronaut sees a planet that can see itself. Attention becomes social.
10
Is awakening knowledge, transformation, surrender, or perception?
A fig tree, a cave, a lectern left behind, a mountain, a window on Earth.
11
What is the witness?
The one who watches thoughts, the one who testifies, the one who may split with a cut.
12
What survives memory loss?
Palaces with walls missing. A mask, a hole in the hours. A bird’s cache.
13
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.