6. Questions no one knows the answers to
Exercise 1
Can you give some examples of the types of questions children often ask? Do you know any questions which cannot be answered?
Watch the video and write down three questions the speaker asks.
Exercise 2
Rewrite the questions from the video using various introductory phrases
- What would it feel like to be a dog?
- Do fish feel pain? How about insects?
- Was the Big Bang just an accident?
- Is there a God?
- If so, how are we so sure that it's a He and not a She?
- Why do so many innocent people and animals suffer terrible things?
- Is there really a plan for my life?
- Is the future yet to be written, or is it already written and we just can't see it? But then,
do I have free will?
- Who am I, anyway? Am I just a biological machine?
- But then, why am I conscious?
- What is consciousness? Will robots become conscious one day?
Exercise 3
Your granddaughter comes to you and asks the questions. How would you answer them?
- Why are pizza boxes square when the pizza is round?
- Does the President have to pay taxes?
- Why do donuts have holes?
- Why is the sea salty?
- How does Santa Claus get down the chimney?