Our entire history has been one where we attempt to find answers for problems. It is our ability to answer problems that unifies all cultures and civilizations, though admittedly sometimes we can see the problems were not really problems as such in the first place (all those non-existent gods that needed appeasing).
In answering problems we have often generated new discoveries which we have used extensively (look at electricity or the water wheel or the the book) many of which generate huge problems of their own. But have we become addicted to the idea that there is always an answer?
Now of course, we could always come up with answers for anything but as those answers veer into the mystical, sometimes pretentious and often fanciful they become less and less useful. It may be that there are some things to which there is no human answer possible. I am reminded of a discussion I had as a teenager when someone asked me what was at the end of the Universe and I said to him ‘nothing’. ‘But what is that?’ He asked. ‘Nothing’, I replied, adding, ‘but we cannot imagine what nothing is.’
We are stuck with minds that seek cause and effect, that create answers where there are none to be found because we must have an answer.
I wonder how many people will be driven mad in the future by the complete lack of answers available. That maybe our entire existence is based on an unknowable.