Why Our Brains Love Origins

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Explanations can even enhance our own comprehension: when we explain something to someone, we understand it better ourselves.... But explanations may need no further explanation, so to speak, than themselves: they are just inherently so very satisfying. In fact, development psychologist Alison Gopnik has proposed that coming up with explanations may be so fulfilling in its own right that it motivates us to engage in more substantial reasoning.  more...