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What animal intelligence reveals about human stupidity with Justin Gregg

ReThinking

CHAPTER

Why Questions Are All We Have

There are certain kinds of why questions that are just unanswerable with science. I remember studying chemistry in high school and asking, why is water made of H2O? Well, it just is. Why is there anything as opposed to nothing? Why is there life? Why do we have to die? Those sorts of why questions are fundamental to the human condition in philosophy. If you're not asking them, you're just existing.

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