They don’t know what they don’t know, until they find out they don’t know it.*
Dave Trott

Consciousness probably involves the entire nervous system and its integration with the full body.**
Alan Lightman

We each notice something
others do not.

If you share something with me that
I do not know, then I can choose to know it, or not.

Becoming a fully conscious being requires me
to experience it in some way as you do.

(I knew a lot of stuff about what retiring and moving habitat would look like;
It has been quite something more in experiencing it.)

Or if I choose not to go that far, to somehow absorb,
Rather than dismiss what you know.

For this, I will bring space, and
reading and listening and openness.

Of course I get to ask questions,
Lots of questions – where’s the fun otherwise?

Just when you think you know all the answers,
the universe comes along and changes the questions.^

Dave Trott’s One + One = Three;
**Alan Lightman’s The Transcendent Brain;
^Francisco Pinto, from Albert Espinosa’s If You Tell Me To Come.