Post by yjk--- Rephrase the question.
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“There are no right answers to wrong questions.”
Is there any such thing as a 'wrong question'?
It might be the unexpected question. It might be an
incomplete question, with room for greater elaboration,
but the 'wrong question'?
Surely only answers can be wrong?
But then if you had the wrong answer, it might lead you to ask
what seems only natural. The wrong question might follow as the
expected fit to that wrong answer.
Every day we are supplied with answers, before it ever occurs
to us to ask the question. Answers which play a part to determine
the question. These answers, waiting to be applied, places us
in the mode of speculating with the as yet unconscious question.
'Surely that answer would not exist if there were no need of the
question'. And so we ask that wrong question only to be assured
of that wrong answer.
If the mind exist to resolve neurological conflicts, then the
answer might well sit in opposition to the question, demanding
to be associated to the question.
Cause and effect. I wonder which comes first, the answer or the
question? Most times we say its the question. That vacuum in
our knowledge waiting to be filled. That vacuum into which any
plausible answer will fit. All of which might lead us to question
those who supply answers, for which we had not sought to ask the
question.
This reminds me of a piece of research, about truth, and the
element of 'reward' which appears to follow our association to
what we already claim as knowledge.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090617123427.htm
How We Recognize What Is True And What Is False
"False statements differentially activated the right fronto-polar
cortex in areas that have been previously related to reasoning
tasks "
"The activations related to true statements involved the left
inferior parietal cortex and the caudate nucleus bilaterally.
The former activation may be hypothesized to reflect continued
thematic semantic analysis and a more extended memory search.
The caudate activation may also reflect this search and matching
processes as well as the fact that recognizing a sentence as true
is in itself a positive reward for the subject, as this area is
also involved in processing reward-related information."
"Paradoxically, it seems that when the differences between truth
and falsehoods are clear-cut, we behave like relativists, and use
similar processes to arrive at a decision. However, when
differences are more subtle, (as in the Cortex study), we adhere
to a categorical distinction and use qualitatively different
processes to decide what is true from false."