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Hi,

I've just stumbled upon this new software and watched the AA video. Not yet bought but likely will.

I have one main question:

1. Are the questions customizable? The reason is I would use AA for general knowledge discovery--trying to quickly understand a subject I know nothing about. To that end, I would like the option of asking specific metaphor-type questions or "what is it(the subject/keyword) like"-type questions.

Example: Suppose I wanted to conceptualize by way of metaphor or comparison a subject from basic Algebra--Quadratic equations. With AA as it's designed now, I could get a great overview, such as How are QE's used, What is the purpose of QE's, How are QE's calculated etc.

But, in addition, I want to search for a key word-image or comparison to something else to quickly grasp the essence of QE's. I want to build the following questions in AA: What are QE's like? What can QE's be compared to? How do you conceptualize QE's? How does one best think of QE's? I doubt if these types of questions would come up in AA as it is designed now. But maybe I'm wrong.

These types of metaphor-questions are often "buried" in the text of web-articles, not as major subject headers which I gather is what AA is searching for to build it's list of questions. But it's the above metaphor-type questions and their answers that vastly accelerate my conceptual understanding of unfamiliar subjects and are very hard to find when using Google or anything else I know of. And even if you can find these types of questions, it can take hours to laboriously read and pull them together into a readable article. Ideally, for example, it would be great to ask the question, "How does one best think of QE's." And I get, say, five answers pulled from all over the web, by different authors, that answer five different ways to think of QE's. I would then have five new ways to conceptualize them.  If AA could do that, it would be a massive time-saver and accelerated learning program.

Stated another way, with this capablity AA could then be used to greatly speed up the "Aha" moments when you say, "Aha, now I get it!"

This capability is on my wish list for future upgrades.