This page introduces questions visitors can explore on this web site and suggests the kind of evidence useful in trying answering them. Some questions are linked directly to commentaries on the question itself. Others are linked to related experiments, strategies, resources or meditations.
Over time, we will describe and comment on the following kinds of questions:
- Problematic Questions
- Empirical Questions
- Moral and Philosophical Questions
- Policy Questions
- Personal Questions
For more about Problematic and Empirical questions, click the links below. Links for the other three types of questions are forthcoming.
Problematic Questions Page
Here is an example of what we consider to be a problematic question:
“Does she still recognize you?“
If you click on this question, you’ll find our commentary, which in this case is not so much an answer as a starting place for understanding the question and what’s problematic about it.
Empirical Questions Page
Here’s an example of an empirical question–the kind of question we can answer if we have enough of the right kind of information:
“If she can’t talk any more, how can you tell what she’s thinking?
If you click on this question, it will take you to a commentary about one way we determined what Leslie was thinking and feeling when she could no longer speak. For more empirical questions, click on the title for this section.