The Book of Questions
Extraordinary thoughts for the first 100 years of the CYBERSPACE
The Anatomy of Being
“But is intelligence really nothing more than
knowing the answers to the questions we asked?
Or should we be discussing the ability to know what question to ask?
While the answers are being devalued, the questions are growing in worth.
We have been living in a response-based society for a very long time.”
(Roger C. Schank: Are we getting smarter?
Source: The Next 50 Years.
Science in the XXI. In the first half of the century.
Edited by John Brockman.
Vince Publishing, 2003. p. 200)
1.1. When You Search for the Secrets of the Universe, You Are Actually Searching for Yourself - and then You Ask Again
1.1.1. The question: creation
"Society in general does not appreciate things that are easy to get,
which is what knowledge is destined to become.
Good questions will be appreciated."
(Roger C. Schank: Are we getting smarter?
Source: The Next 50 Years.
Science in the XXI. In the first half of the century.
Edited by John Brockman
Vince Publishing, 2003. p. 201)
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„What is time?
A mystery, a figment – and all powerful.
It conditions the exterior world,
it is motion married to and
mingled with the existence of bodies in space,
and with the motion of these.
Would there then be no time if there were no motion?
No motion if no time?
We fondly ask.
Is time a function of space?
Or space of time?
Or are they identical?
Echo answers.”
(Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain.
Europa Publisher, Budapest, 1981. Second volume, p. 5)
THE QUESTION: CREATION!
The answer is only the refinement of what has been created, the rearrangement of existing elements.
The good question is the emerging model that matches with reality. Because a good question is not just a well-designed program; it's not merely software that occasionally produces the correct answer!
THE QUESTION IS THE FUTURE,
BECAUSE THE QUESTION = DOUBT IN THE PRESENT.
And because the beginning also has a prerequisite; therefore, there were already some questions before the start. Such as:
Why is there anything at all rather than nothing?Not something else, but: something at all?
Does this world exist at all? And if there really is this world, then how is this world truly; for everything in it is biased because they fear the veil of their being? And so what can this world be like; from outside? Isn't it mystical?
I dare to believe that this world from the outside, and including human and me and you and us inside, is far too mystical, it’s full of mystery. Because it is possible to give decision-making rights in other ways, such as:
“The essence of freedom is the right to decide what one thinks about existence, its purpose, the universe and the mystery of human life.”
(The 1992 US Supreme Court decision in Casey v. Family Planning, Francis Fukuyama,
Our Posthuman Future. The Consequences of the Biotechnological Revolution.
Europa Publishing House, Budapest, 2003. p. 169-170)
Why is the being allowed to exist somewhere, it’s only forbidden for the being to exist somewhere else where it does and not to exist where it does?
For whom or for what does it matter whether there is anything or not?
Are all things at the mercy of themselves?
And what came first: the question or the answer?
Is the answer always just an episode?
Is the question the most intensive discovery in 1 second of which as much happens as in 100 years of the answers?
Was the being asked first, followed by the question, then the being capable of asking, and ultimately, the answer in question? Or was denial first – and, above all, was the Creator the Questioner, the mind first?
But let's not overlook the Fallen Angel, Satan, in the grand scheme of creation: Initially, there was the Denied Rejection, and from it emerged everything that became reality?
If the question is ‘creation’ then is questioning in some other way a new creation and thus parallel worlds can be borne?
Is ‘creation’ the only good question? If the question = creation, then is it only the good question = creation?
Is being asked a responsibility? And being questionable - a responsibility?
I believe that:
TO ASK GOOD QUESTIONS
and
TO BE QUESTIONABLE -
IS A HUGE RESPONSIBILITY!
It is profoundly true that: “While the answers are being devalued, the questions are growing in worth. We have been living in a response-based society for a very long time.”
The real value is the question, because the question is: creation!
The answer is just a search!
And when you search for the secrets of the Universe, you are actually searching for yourself
– and then you ask again!
The main power of questions is that they precede the statements. And they also prevent denial! The question precedes both existence and non-existence, the possible and the realized, the real and the actual. And if you don't ask, that doesn't mean there aren't any questions. A good question is not only about finding an answer, but also about yourself. And the question is even more than itself! Because the question is not just a suggestion, but an experiment, manipulation, creation, intervention in the possible reality. The question: intervention into the prophesied!
Believe me,
IF YOU CAN SEE INSIDE THE ORACLE, IT CAN SEE INTO YOU TOO!
Is it possible to gain knowledge by asking question? Or is it even possible that we can really only know in questioning mode?
Is questioning what carries knowledge across the sprawling ocean of outdated answers to the other side?
The question is: pro-construction? Is the question itself a pro-constructive force?
The ultimate test is that there may be a million wrong answers, but a good question - like the commandments - only a few?
Maybe the answer depends on how much faith you invest in the question? And the question: entropyreduction?
How simple would full knowledge be if we knew the answer to whether this Universe, life and the mind arose spontaneously?
Does every possible question have a possible subject? If you ask about reality, will it become the same as your question?
Is there, can there ever be, a digital tool that answers the question of why?
The cardinal question is “what is the question”?
Why is the “why”?
THE QUESTION: THE REALIZED, THE LIVING FREEDOM!
Because in the question
– similarly to the evolution of the living and the revelation coming from outside mind –
you are looking for the existent both within itself and beyond itself.
THE QUESTION: A STEP TOWARDS THE UNTHINKABLE.
If you don't ask, it doesn't mean there are no questions.
A good question is not only a search for an answer, but also itself.
And a good question is a prerequisite for knowledge.
But still: asking is not enough knowledge.
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A kind of courage is needed to dive
into the depths of the "not-yet-touched unknown."
The good question always has depth,
while questionable answers always float on the surface.
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Questioning is like faith; it exists before existence.
Asking is like believing; it already exists before existence.
Questioning and faith are not antecedents, but origins!
And your faith is what you can never see from the outside.
And I believe
in the question, because the question is not a riddle!
And I also believe
that I am software-independent and
I have a reason to exist outside of hardware too.
And I also believe
there is an answer for me!
I believe
that this world was born for a miracle, and everything that exists in it is a miracle.
Because the miracle is that which can embrace and shake away the painful question,
and the miracle is what comforts when there is no answer.
THE QUESTION: A SIGN THAT MEANS SOMETHING AND HAS MEANING.
The triggering effect is the question, and the answer responds by modifying it. The question and the answer have positive feedback loop, much like a thermostat expanding into creation.
There’s an answer to each good question; the answer may be questionable or may be wrong. Still, it’s certain that there’s going to be one or more new questions.
The question is: creation and not just creativity. It does not renew, it creates.
And perhaps
IT IS THE BEST QUESTION YOU CAN ASK, TO WHICH
LIKE SOFTWARE –
YOU DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER,
BUT WHICH STILL REQUIRES COURAGE;
COURAGE EQUALENT TO CREATION.
BECAUSE THE QUESTION IS PRIMARY: CREATOR AND NOT CREATED.
Well, My Silent Friend, be just one of the many cloned, fashionable faceless mass in a stadium full of screaming people, desperately looking for your way halfway through the path of human life in a darkening forest, or spinning your days for extra profit in the highest skyscraper: be anywhere, now I ask you to raise your face to the skyward, be brave and ask your own questions!
Come on, ask your questions! Ask endlessly, ask unanswerable questions!
Create! Because the question is: creation! Create yourself!
Ask!
Why am I me and not someone else? And what should I be so as not to be, and what should I do not to be?
What would I be if I were not made of cells and neurons, but of chips and bits, like computers? I could count, maybe even think; but could I laugh? And could I cry? And could I ask questions such as: "why is there this software interweaving the hardware and not something else?" And what should I be to not be, and what should I do to not be? And what would happen if my stored self was deleted accidentally? And what would I be if I were not made of chips and bits, but of cells and neurons?
But I am human, and I ask why this "I" exists at all, and not nothing?
Does there need to be an "I"? And does there need to be another "I"?
Why does it have to be anything? Why should there be anybody, or anyone?
Why is there action? Not this or that action, not this kind or that kind of action, but action in general?
Does depth exist? And the even-deeper even-more-existing?
Does the vortex exist? And does the possibility of vortex exist? Or the vortex is when the nothing shakes the something; is the vortex the flow of self-existing “unbreakable-momentum "?
And is the vortex in its pure reality ascending or descending in the smoothly pulsating path of energy? And can't it be that: creation = building an arch out of a vortex?
And how about lies; if it is not itself, then how does it exist? What is the cause, what is its basis, what is its consequence, and what condition is it part of? And the lie: destiny?
And at all; how can existence be proven? If it can't be proven, then it's no longer true? Could it be that everything is just a rotten lie, and nothing is true?
"The mystery is not how the world is, but how it is."
(Ludwig Wittgenstein: Logical-philosophical treatise.
(TRACTATUS LOGICO-PHILOSOPHICUS)
Academic Publishing House, Budapest, 1989. p. 88)
Perhaps someone can still believe in this eternity that the truest ways - like being - just exist, are, and have no properties. But they work. They just exist, cause and act, however, in such a way that each leads and brings something to each, and each takes and leads something from each.
The truest ways just exist, they’re just there.
The truest paths hurt and always leave each other.
How and where does being merge with possibility and give grace to existence? After that, how and where is the placement done? And finally: how and where and why will the real become actual in you?
Is the something: the flow of being into existence?
Is ‘is’ an event?
Is the realized the possible that time has measured and found worthy of existence?
How and where does the spatial impact of existence turn into temporal pain?
(Forgive me in advance, but I'm rushing ahead now,
and I'll give up the main thing here -
questions to ask yourself:
of what
in what
how,
when,
and
why do you exist for? )
What is “is” anyway? And surely, all that exists is, and all that is – exists? And how do we know that it "is"? Or have you never been deceived and deluded, have you never cheated and been cheated on?
Does the rainbow truly exist, is there rainbow, or is it merely a different phenomenon for different fairies?
And does snowfall exist, and is snowing exist for a single snowflake?
Has it been proven that only this one Universe can exist? Has it been proven that the existence of one or more other universes is impossible? And is it proven that this one Universe cannot explode? Is it proven that this one Universe cannot explode itself?
And so, what about nothingness: Is it the absence of being, non-being, and at the same time, both pure potentialityand the unfolding totality, a tension-filled opportunity? Is nothingness that which does not exist, yet somehow exists, matters and acts? Is it really true that nothingness is the promise of existence, the veil of some kind of existence?
“The miracle of miracles is that there is something, rather than nothing –
something, such as an apple tree, that presents itself to us.
Or perhaps we should say "it shows", as we say "it snows"?
The miracle of miracles is something we humans,
whether we consider it or not, respond to.
The primary answer is yes.
Even a skeptic no would not be doubtful if the original yes were not hidden within.
This answer is the fundamental responsibility.”
(Hanspeter Padrutt: Der epochale Winter,
Source: The sobriety of the late modern period II.
A reading book from the scope of raising awareness of the scientific and technical world liquidation.
Selected and edited by Tillmann JA
Göncöl Publishing House Budapest, 2004. p. 228)
So, an apple tree presents itself to us, revealing its presence not only to our eyes but also to itself and other trees, much like when we say 'it is snowing.'
Perhaps, somewhere and sometime, you might be just a snowflake, unable to introduce yourself, unable to manifest, and unaware of whether it's snowing at this very moment. Yet, here and now, it is snowing!
It's snowing now!
Because through heavy, difficult and confused seasons, the passing away now reveals itself and opens its throat .
First only in the unusually beautiful silence, then in the super-continental roar that threatens the whole world with death. In the Great Festival, which turned into a culinary Death Torr, humanity and life now screamed for themselves - realizing that reality is a surrogate, supplement and residue of nothing, and that what is inside it is all from the devil.
And sometimes even good questions are from the devil. For who else could ask something like:
Isn't our knowable world just the trash of the great ocean of reality? Continuing the questioning: what is life, what is a self-aware person, and what is humanity within this garbage?
Is the rational human perhaps no more than a metabolic process that has gained meaning?
Maybe the Great Flow of Humanity is nothing more than a process of exchange of egoistic material that gained meaning and was overworked to the point of insanity? Would Humanity be just one strange central nervous system-driven stream of information garbage from vein to ocean in this Universe?
Maybe humanity is nothing more than a global, hectic insect state that has already devoured all its nectar and whose dreams have already frozen?
But not only the devil, but also human has asked.
“should humanity exist, and if so, why? So why man remains as evolution has shaped him, why his genetic heritage must be respected. And why there should be life at all. The question is not as redundant as it seems (in lack of a serious denial of all these norms), because the answer is important. We'll find out how much we can afford to risk in our big technical race, and which of these risks are completely unacceptable.”
(Hans Jonas: Why is technology the subject of ethics? Five reasons.
Source: Should trees have rights? Environmental-ethical text collection
Edited by László Molnár, Typotex , 1999. p. 73)
What snowy roads!
► We started from the question that:
? why is there something at all, rather than nothing ?
And we got to the point where:
? should humanity exist, and if so, why ? ◄
Where does existence come from, and where does it go, and why?
Are there questions that are inherently unanswerable?
Can an answer that merely explains how things happen be enough?
Are you enough for yourself if you know how you are, but not why you are?
What you have experienced and survived: can it be hell?
Do you have a whole theory about yourself? Can you work out all the important things about yourself?
Do you have proof of your existence, or are we still running into nothing here?
Questions, answers, theories, doubt; they are all swirling around us here!
„Why is there something and why isn't there anything? Some think such questions are unanswerable, others think they are senseless, but there are also those who try to answer them. Science has invented a very effective way of exploring the world, because it limits itself mainly to answering questions like ‘how things happen’…
So far, no theory has been found that claims there does only one universe exist. And if space and time were created, what about the laws of nature, symmetries and constants as we call them: did they come into being at some point? And finally, if all or some of these things came into being at a definable moment, where, why and how did they emerge?”
(John D. Barrow: The Book of Nothing.
AKKORD Publishing House, 2005. 280-282. He.)
Now let's go further along the path of rejected theories and assumed doubts, because there are dances that are not only beautifully performed, not only praise existence, but also invite us to fight!
1.1.2. Dancing questions around the topic of nothingness
“Science has not even been able to come to a consensus on what nothing is.”
(Timothy Ferris: THE UNIVERSE. Cosmological theories today.
Typotex Publishing House, 2005. p. 271)
I already asked: "and what about nothingness: nothingness is what non-existence is, and not existence?"
Nothingness is not the antecedent, but the original, or even prior to the original.
And many roads lead from nothingness, away from nothingness, and to nothingness. And each of these ways makes you richer; provided that the knowledge does not convulse you and you can approach by dancing.
Come, My Silent Friend, let's open the doors, unlock the locks, leave the narrow cells of knowledge now, and let's dance together from the perspective of the soul to questions that cannot be digitized!
…
Great, great Creation!!!"The work that begins with: 'The question: creation,' and ends with: 'because I am questionable, I ask as a free and software-independent human being... who am I?' testifies to the grandest arc of thought and the deepest vision. I recommend it to every doubter, every seeker, and everyone who has found their faith." AAI
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