The Questions · the self · borrowed software
Is this my thinking, or yours?
The reset asks it of everything you inherited. Working beside a machine that finishes your sentences, you have to ask it again, and more often.
The one standing question of the practice, asked always.
What this settles
Which makes it a habit rather than an audit you complete. There is no point at which the question stops being worth asking, and the second mind does not introduce it — it raises the rate.
What it leaves open
What belief would you never put on trial?
Raised in this footing and not answered anywhere in the work.
Not this question
Is this mine, or is it theirs wearing my voice?
Also in this footing, and a different question. That one asks where a belief came from. This one asks it live, about the sentence in front of you.
Also asked as
- Is this my thinking, or yours? Is this mine, or is it the machine's pattern wearing my voice?
Where this is worked out
What Is the Second Mind Doing to the First?
Items without a link are sessions, shorts, strand reads or frameworks that live as video or audio rather than as pages. Everything Philosophy Zero puts out is listed on the Shelf.
Nothing on this page is composed. Every sentence in the answer is drawn from the pieces listed above. Where a claim is compressed, it is compressed from one of them and adds nothing they do not say.
Borrowed software
Ideas about life installed before you were old enough to be asked, the one move out of them, and what is left to check them with. 2 of the 5 here have been worked through; the rest are on the map and not yet walked.
- Is this mine, or is it theirs wearing my voice?walked
- What does the name mean?answered, not written up
- If everything’s installed, what’s left to look with?not explored yet
- What belief would you never put on trial?not explored yet