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orthonormal comments on [Transcript] Richard Feynman on Why Questions - Less Wrong Discussion

61 Post author: Grognor 08 January 2012 07:01PM

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Comment author: orthonormal 09 January 2012 10:06:32PM 7 points [-]

I think he's implicitly answering a more important meta-question: when people ask "why", they're usually wanting a narrative explanation, and so scientific explanations are often found unsatisfying.