I Don't Know Is Not a Useful Answer for Learning

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I don't know is not a useful answer for learning ever so confronted with a mysterious experience confronted with something in explainable that either happens to you or you hear about the least comfortable answer is actually I don't know because you can't learn from that. The brain abhors a story vacuum and will always give a reason in the same way Anna always gave a reason for why she laughed she never said I don'tknow.

How does the mind work? What makes us sad? What makes us laugh? Despite advances in neuroscience, the answers to these questions remain elusive. Neuroscientist Patrick House talks about these mysteries and about his book Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. House's insights illuminate not just what we know and don't know about our minds--he also helps us understand what it means to be human.