Author's Note
Some questions should never be asked.
But how do you answer such a question?
The following question is purportedly taken from
official court records:
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Q: When he went, had you gone and had she, if she wanted to and were able, for the time being excluding all the restraints on her not to go, gone also, would he have brought you, meaning you and she, with him to the station?
MR. BROOKS: Objection. That question should be taken out and shot.
http://www.allisonlaw.com/legally/stupid.html
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Since you can't really shoot a question, we need a word, a concept
to deal with these things.
Here's a great idea:
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... "MU" is an ancient Zen answer which, when given to a question,
UNASKS the question. Here, the question seems to be,
"Should the world be understood via holism or via reductionism?"
And the answer of "MU" here rejects the premises of the question,
which are that one or the other must be chosen.
By unasking the question, it reveals a wider truth:
that there is a larger context into which both holistic
and reductionistic explanations fit."
... Ant Fugue
Godel, Escher, Bach
Douglas R. Hofstadter
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So, why did I write this?
MU.
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