"Master, I remember that we spoke about an egg and about notegg [13. But is it not so that when knowing it to be an egg, we then ask questions afterwards? It may be boiled/not-boiled, stone/not-stone, chicken/not-chicken and so on. Are not the first and all the later thinkings different, the first not being a question?"
"Decidedly not. They all are the same. We just do not remember our asking first 'what is it' because the knowing of 'egg' is so fast. The Mind, you should bear in Mind, is like a basket with a labelon it saying only: 'what is it?' We call it 'analog'. The Mind itself, like all Nature is analog, a process. Now, the only way of determining something of the flabbergasting Reality, is by making it into digits, in slices. That is ideation. They must be binary digits in pairs like X/not-X. Seeing an egg, then is an immediate answer to the always open question of 'what is it?' It is thus that ideation, that what is going on in the Mind, is always problem solving. All is questioning and partial answers, the answers calling up questions again." [13], [24]