[s1artibartfast]

I think we might just disagree. As far as we can determine, humans have tried to understand and predict how things work. How and when game migrates. What causes plants to grow, and how we can induce it. What makes a good growing season. We are naturally causal detectives, connecting the idea that eating prevents hunger, or that clothes provide comfort.

Sure, not everyone may care about esoteric questions like the origin of the cosmos, but nobody is free from seeking to understand causality. The former is an offshoot of the later.

[avgcorrection]

> Sure, not everyone may care about esoteric questions like the origin of the cosmos, but nobody is free from seeking to understand causality. The former is an offshoot of the later.

An idea/debate that immediately and violently runs into contradictions when you query for its practical applications is not at all an offshoot of the latter.

[s1artibartfast]

They share the same engine of curiosity and desire to understand the world.

I dont think humans could have to cognitive drive to discover practical applications of truth or causality without sometimes running into tough questions.

I think it is evolutionarily and culturally impossible for people to only make practical discoveries when the utility is not apparent until the discovery is made.

Knowledge is power, both socially and evolutionarily.