Extracting the Structure of the World

i think part of what explanations do is that they relate are observations to something more like a simple underlying structure. Itsa way to try to extract order and regularity from what might otherwise seem disorganized and unsettling. Our drive for explanation itself needed explanation, tania says. For instance, there are times when this drive can make us help us discover new things. But there are other times when our hunger for a simple story can make us leap to conclusions or become less curious....