What we want to know, we want to know for a reason.
The reason is that there is a hole, a gap, an emptiness in our understanding of things, our mental model of the world.
We feel that gap like a hole in a tooth and want to fill it up.
It makes us ask HOW? WHEN? WHY?
While the gap is there, we are in tension, in suspense.
Listen to the anxiety in a person's voice when he says "This doesn't make sense!"
When the gap in our understanding is filled, we feel pleasure, satisfaction, relief.
Things make sense again - or at any rate, they make more sense than they did.
Holt, J "How Children Learn,"
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