How would you define what a question is?

Question

I mean, what is actually happening in our brain? And how is this translated into language?

Answer 1

Let me try to answer the first question.

A question is a combination of a statement with a missing information, and a request to the listener to supply the missing information.

The missing information may be
unknown by the asker -- to seek information
known by the asker -- to test the listener
known by both -- rhetorical question

Your second question is too complex to be answered.

Answer 2

The human brain, is more advanced that the most high tech computer existing today, or ever will exist.

The brain function has the capability to analyze a situation, evaluate findings and if no solution is known, due to insufficient data, it prompts us to pose a question as designed by the brain in order to procure sufficient data or information to solve or resolve the issue.

All of the above formulates a question to be asked.

You have heard the expression, sleep on it. That is most assuredly for real.

Many times I have a problem to solve or a method or technique to come up with, and I forget about it and the next morning, the answer is there.

Do not ever underestimate the power of the human mind and brain. It is said the average human being uses only about 1/10th of the brains powerful ability. Much of that is due to pre-conditioned training and lack of confidence in being the best we can be. Ignorance breeds ignorance. Need I say more?

Darryl S.

Answer 3

If a sentence ends in a question mark then its a question. If you ask a person a question then the person reacts by thinking of the most logical reply to that question depending on their knowledge and experience I suppose, just like a computer. The answer or not depends on the data that has been input into the computer or the brain and this is then translated into an answer or not....I think...thats the answer but oh... what was the question...

Answer 4

A realisation of some definite gap in our knowledge and an effort to fill that gap; or an admission of our ignorance about something that we would like to know – the beginning of knowledge; an acknowledgement of what we know we do not know; or a question can also be intuitive realisation of something that we do not know that we do not know. Our mind can inductively perceive things that are beyond the domain of or existing knowledge – we do not know what we are looking for but we somehow know there is something important that we must know, or find out. A question unless expressed and refined can incur upon mind a state of turmoil – all that we know depends upon knowing what we do not know.

Questions are kind of metaphysical realities with open spaces and blanks - we do not know exactly how exactly that spaces or banks will be fulfilled. As obviously do not know what the answer is until a question is resolved. But no question can be a final question. All questions can generate further questions. We often ask many questions to refine our search and to reach one ultimate answer that no one can answer and that no one can ignore, like – who am I, and what is the purpose of my life? We only live because we ask questions like these, and when we no longer like to ask any more we die. These questions are live questions they cannot, and should not, be answered. This is how they stay alive and keep us alive.

The best questions are those that keep our curios and searching for better and better things in life. They are in fact the embodiment of our sense of perfection and hence sense of incompletion, eagerness and wonder – all intellectual virtues. These types of questions take us to the end of our worldly knowledge. From that place onwards is a place where knowledge becomes wordless - the knowledge of being itself. Here we contemplate and realise that we have known nothing.

Just as the beauty of seeing is in the fact that we do not see the eye that sees but only the scene in front, similarly the excellence of knowing is when knowledge becomes invisible itself, only truth then can be seen - the best way to find something is to become that something. I do not ask questions, I am the question, and I am the answer to myself. Who am I? I am the best answer myself, and no one else in the world can be.

Answer 5

the function of the brain is just like the working of a microprocessor...

...the signals which had been sent to the microprocessor has been processed and matches with the one which has been already progarammed in that and executes the answer accordingly...........
.... in a similar fashion brain had already stored some pre programmed functions so as to what to do when a particular thing has been sensed....... the inbuilt reasoning has been stored in the brain right from the birth......such as turning our head towards a particlar direction when we hear the the sound in tha direction..........

..the physical / mechanical impulses which had been sensed by the human body will be converted to electrical impulses and sensed by reasoning section in the cerebral porton for the brain and the brain executes that function had to be done accordingly....
..the phenomenon of asking questions also works in that way

Answer 6

the question is an indication of an enquiring (working) mind,
it simply mean that the working mind is missing a piece of information it needs to complete a file of information it is being organising, and because it didn't find that information in its own files, it crays for help in the form of a question,
there is a saying in Arabic literature: asking a question is half the knowledge (meaning: if you know the art of asking questions, then you own half the knowledge)

Answer 7

What ever we ask about, we know already something, or else we do not know what to ask about !
The little thing we know, we use the familiar words to describe, and what we do not know, or unable to find a word for it, we use a variable word(s) like we use ' x ' in algebra. What ever we ask, we seem to get answers from outside, but actually, we match it with something we know, and then declare it to be a answer !

Answer 8

A sentence that requires the recipient to respond, giving certain information, defined by the original request.

Answer 9

We see an object and wonder what it is, so the inquisitive part of brain wants to know what it is. Therefore, the question is born.

Answer 10

A question is part of the process of inquiry engaged in to solve a challenge, task or problem.