For the curious. The questioning. The splendidly unfinished. WELCOME, SNAKE PERSON.
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Understanding

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FUNCTION / TRUST + EXPLANATIONS

Passage actions

Understanding

Four distinct forms connected around a square, illustrating Understanding.

The organism learned that a story could be useful and incomplete at the same time. Its windows admitted evidence. Its questions acquired hinges, so they could open and also stop swinging.

Passage actions

PRACTICE / Separate observation, interpretation, and uncertainty.

What did we observe, and what explanation did we add?

Passage actions

Overuse: investigation becomes interrogation; explanation postpones action.

Passage actions
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