[conductr]

This comment encapsulates how poorly we humans are at accepting unknowns. For me, that explains a lot of our belief systems. The fact we can’t just take the unknown but instead have to fill in the blanks with what ifs. and create a narrative like we know anything about the unknown thing. It helps us feel like we understand it more. That’s literally how religions and a lot of other things get created, it’s a pattern, then the logical person sees the patterns and say it’s a simulation. A quite predictable filling of another blank.

[fwip]

I'd argue that it's this same pattern-seeking drive that undergirds science.

"Zeus sends the lightning, his wrath darkening the very sky," is an understandable model that connects "dark storm clouds" to a likely prediction of lightning.

That urge to explain the surprising, to find the pattern, leads directly to our understanding of the cosmos.

[mlyle]

> and create a narrative like we know anything about the unknown thing. It helps us feel like we understand it more.

In fairness, this very often helps us understand the unknown thing more.

[jaapz]

"dunno" is just a really unsatisfying answer to anything

Currently we don't know a lot of things - but without trying out new ideas how are you ever going to know?

[conductr]

Trying is fine. Saying you don’t know or don’t understand something is not mutually exclusive with trying to learn more

[kelipso]

It’s how science and discoveries are done too…