Before Anyone Counted
Were there seven, or did seven arrive with us?
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Before Anyone Counted
Long before there were people, there were seven somethings standing in a valley. Nobody was there to count them. No one had invented the word seven, or the idea of seven, or any way of noticing that four of them and three of them made the whole group.
Were there seven, or did seven arrive with us?
Then ask
- Does the same answer work for a colour? For a straight line?
- If every mind in the universe vanished tonight, what would stop being true?
- Which feels more invented to you: numbers or money?
The classics and some new ones. A scenario, the question it forces, and the follow-ups that make it bite.