Questioning Meaning And Self
To question is to recognize that reality could be understood differently from how you currently understand it, and to seek a resolution. The interesting thing is that questioning has several levels. At the most basic level, it is information seeking. At its most abstract, it becomes a system questioning its own existence, its assumptions, and the nature of knowing itself. I think questioning can be decomposed into four capacities: Representation: You have a model of something. Uncertainty: You recognize that your model is incomplete, inconsistent, or potentially wrong. Possibility: You can represent alternative explanations or states of reality. Inquiry: You can direct attention, thought, or action toward resolving the uncertainty. An important distinction: not knowing something is different from knowing that you don't know something. And knowing you don't know is different from being able to invent new questions that reveal previously unrecognized ignorance. That final ability seems p