**Links to**: [[Question]], [[Misosophy]], [[What is enlightenment]], [[What]], [[What gives]], [[What is happening]], [[On the importance of vegetables and sand for philosophy]], [[Ground]], [[Interest]], [[Desire]], [[Deleuze]], [[Ground]], [[What is grounding]], [[What is a question]], [[Concept]], [[Philosophy]], [[Sophists]], etc. What does _what_ do? Interrogative words, in a few languages (at least the ones I have some knowledge of), all overlap in this: they set out the initial exploratory boundaries of the predictive terrain. Questions restrict, or pre-structure, the domain that is to be investigated. It is strange we do not question questions more often.^[See also: [[Recursivity]].] _Where_, _who_ and _when_, seem more self-explanatory than _why_, _how_ or _what_. Why is that? The first three clearly imply orientation in space, actant/agent,^[I.e., [[Xpectator]].] or time. The latter are more complex: “why” implies combinations of many different interrogations possible (causal, linear, historical, intentional, etc.). “How” is functionally related to “why” (this is especially clear in the oft-used “how come?”), but in most colloquial interrogations it seems that “why” seeks a _causal_ grounds, often a narration of past events, whereas “how” is more interested in future actions (think: “why does this work?” and “how does this work?”). “What” is, in our incursion, actually the strangest of them all. It takes on many functions: the designation of a subject (“what is that?”), but “what” can also seek highly abstract processes, or entire conceptual frameworks. “What am I trying to say?” “What this implies.” “What you want.” “What does it matter?” “What if none of this is real?” “What would constitute evidence?” “What remains unsaid?” In the end, “what”, apparently subject-oriented and more static, seems to get at recursive processes in quite as much depth as “why”, if not more. %% This note is just mindless for now. Whatever it is that we feel ourselves in, it feels to me, like a braid. A braid: I talked to Farida about this. It goes in and out: overlapping, linking strands, but each strand somehow tragically separated from the others. The experience is one, the braid is continuous, the strands are separate.