the “unknown-unknowns” aisle. Here are a few questions humans don’t yet know how to ask cleanly. Ask yourself, have I thought of anything here? Why are there things I cannot think about? How can I open my mind to become curious of things I cannot even think of yet?

1. The Binding Key
   Hidden question: What exact operation turns many neuronal firings into a single “I, here, now”?
   Why it matters: Without a binding operator, consciousness is a rumor. With it, mind-engineering stops being witchcraft.
2. The Measure of Moments
   Hidden question: What measure picks out “this” observer-moment from all physically possible ones?
   Why it matters: Solves why-you-are-you (indexical uncertainty) and plugs the leaks in anthropic reasoning.
3. Arrow Genesis
   Hidden question: What boundary condition (or law) makes entropy increase feel inevitable from inside time?
   Why it matters: If the arrow of time is emergent bookkeeping, causality and free will need a firmware update.
4. Reality’s Type System
   Hidden question: What primitives does the universe actually compiles to—fields, information, categories, something stranger?
   Why it matters: Pick the right types and “forces vs. geometry vs. information” becomes just different syntax.
5. Qualia Algebra
   Hidden question: What algebra predicts the structure of experience (redness, pain, awe) from dynamics alone?
   Why it matters: Bridges physics → phenomenology. Also the difference between empathetic AI and very polite calculators.
6. Cosmic Sampling Bias
   Hidden question: Which events are systematically invisible because only survivors write history (the “anthropic shadow” spec)?
   Why it matters: Our disaster statistics—and complacency—rest on censored data.
7. Dark Sector Semantics
   Hidden question: Is “dark matter/energy” a linguistic bug masking extra dofs (new fields), emergent gravity, or topology?
   Why it matters: Choose correctly and half of cosmology snaps into a simpler story.
8. The Conservation of Identity
   Hidden question: What invariants track personal identity across duplication, upload, or teleportation?
   Why it matters: Ethics, law, and death itself hinge on whether continuity is fact or ritual.
9. Chirality’s First Cause
   Hidden question: Which nonlocal asymmetry seeded life’s handedness—cosmic circular polarization, parity violation, or a phase transition we haven’t named?
   Why it matters: Life’s recipe isn’t complete until the sign-bit is.
10. The Compression Limit of Meaning
    Hidden question: Is there a shortest description that preserves semantics (not just data) for any mind?
    Why it matters: Caps what “alignment” or translation could ever achieve between alien intelligences.
11. The Censorship Protocol
    Hidden question: What mechanism (cosmic censorship? decoherence? selection effects?) prevents observers from witnessing reality-breaking states?
    Why it matters: Explains why miracles flirt but never stay for breakfast.
12. The Negotiated Universe
    Hidden question: Do laws of physics hard-code outcomes, or are they equilibrium terms of many self-consistent histories?
    Why it matters: If laws are fixed points, “prediction” becomes “coordination with consistency.”