المرآة غير وصور الأشخاص غير وحصول مثالها في المرآة غير
The mirror is one thing, the forms of persons another, and the arrival of their likeness in the mirror a third.
Iḥyāʾ ʿUlūm al-Dīn, Book of the Marvels of the Heart. In the same passage: knowledge is the arrival of the likeness in the mirror.
- Look into a mirror, then step aside. What stayed in the glass?
- A photograph keeps your face after you leave. A mirror does not. Which one is more like knowing?
- A machine keeps a likeness of everything it has read, long after the page is gone. Is keeping the same as knowing?
Pick one. That is the first session.