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223 | Tania Lombrozo on What Explanations Are
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Is There an Understanding of Why We Are Driven to Ask Questions?
As a psychologist, is there an understanding of psychologically why we are driven to seek explanations? You know, is it just that there's a part of a human brain that is naturally curious or which sounds kind of lofty almost like we're naturally curious creatures? Or is it more down to earth, do you think? So we definitely have evidence that basically from the moment kids have the language capacities to ask questions, they are asking questions. And a lot of those questions are what I would call explanation seeking questions. It seems like it's an early emerging human capacity and we know it plays an important role in human learning.
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