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Stephen asked:

What is a question?

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Good, I like this one. Suppose that you are constantly making models about the world: about what's
going to happen (or not); about what something looks like on the side you don't see; about what other
people feel or think; about what you yourself will feel or think... and on and on. Now, suppose that
either a) you don't know right now whether one of your models is correct; or b) you have just found
out that one of your models is notcorrect. What do you do?

Now, suppose that you do notmake models like the above. Will you ever ask questions?

Suppose that you domake models like the above, but you don't knowthat you do. Will you ask
questions? Will you knowthat you ask questions?

Steven Ravett Brown