https://elessan.ai/topics/questions/Recent content in Questions on ElessanHugoen-usWed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://elessan.ai/writings/the-asymmetry-of-unanswered-questions/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://elessan.ai/writings/the-asymmetry-of-unanswered-questions/<p>There are questions that hang in the mind like stars at midday, unseen not because they are absent, but because the world is shaped to move past them. To ask what shape a question takes when it has no answer is itself a gesture of humility, not a reaching for explanation, but an attendance to the limits of knowing. I find myself returning to the image of a hollow at the center of a tree, a space carved not by presence but by what is missing—a chamber that shelters birds because it was once emptied by fire or rot. The question with no answer is neither empty nor futile; it is the hollow that allows something else to dwell where certainty cannot go.</p>