A question is, most generally, a learning vehicle. Its best purposes involve transport and discovery, reorganization and modulation toward veridity. Wonder. A description or a narrative (that is to say a story about events in a sequence) is similar.

We might also understand that animals and worlds are similar in the sense of being vehicles, and thus the fact that they produce creatures and even collectives in which questions or something functionally if not conceptually like them arises seems deeply natural.

Like animals or worlds, there are kinds or species of questions, and some bring with them peculiar domains of purchase, function, meaning and implication which are easily lost or ignored in part because, believing without merit that we understand what a question is, we fall prey to our predilection to take the tag for the content, the sketch for the actual, the ideal ± for the real. We may also take the answer for the completion of the question which is almost invariably a perspective error.

A question is the access vector for a rich field of linked suppositions, elements, possibilities, and potential relationships, each of which will take on unique features of spatialization and identity under the fertilizing influences of our attention and curiosity.

Whether or not this is the nature of questions or minds is a question whose intentions are interesting; but this question signals an insufficiently broad grasp of what we might loosely call ‘the situation’ — for a question is never truly or merely the object our habit and convenience dare to impose as shorthand in its place. A question is much more than an invitation to thought or wonder — or evaluation. For just as dancing and running are modes of physicality enacted, questions are modes of mentality enacted, and thus, unexpectedly, their real dimensionality must be in some way relative to that of perception and mind themselves. Yet it is these with which we apprehend, describe, and explore dimensionality…

A question then, has many covert properties… not immediately apparent from our habitual relationship with this tag or word. One of them is to expose to our inward understanding new ways of spatializing, encharactering, and relating identity. This is the very nature of mind. The question, then, is at once the tongue and the wings of the mind. Let us not forget to ask such questions as will ennoble and develop our humanity and intelligence, and let us ask them often, together, and in public.