When smart people are presented with something new, they tend to ask, "how does it work?": how is it structured, how was it made? But the more important & difficult question is *why does it work*: what is the functional kernel that makes it effective, what guided its evolution?
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A classic example is neuroscience: it is very much in the business of asking, "how does the brain work?", and it has no power to answer the actually important question, "why does the brain work?"...
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The "how" stay at the level of superficial observations. The "why" gets to the heart of the system. It requires a full understanding not only of the system itself, but of the context in which it lives. It requires you to follow the thread of purpose that drove its emergence.
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Remember when equating curiosity with intelligence, that it was curiosity what killed the cat.
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