Questions You Thought Don;t Have Answers

Filipinos love a good riddle and answering crossword puzzles. Our desire to answer all the questions and completely finish the job gives us some kind of titillation, the need to continue and persevere until we accomplish the task. It tickles our brain cells, and we feel mighty proud once the cryptogram is decoded.

People ask why everybody loves Jessica Fletcher of Murder She Wrote? Or Ben Matlock or Jake and the Fatman.  Well,  they always solve mysteries.

Too bad, there are a lot of questions and mysteries out there that we may never learn the answers to their intriguing nature. The universe is far-reaching and its mysteries limitless, and there are many things that even geniuses have their arms raised upwards because they don't have answers to some of these queries. 

Let’s explore some of the questions that there are no answers  to. 

Question: Do caterpillars know that they're going to be butterflies or do they build the cocoon not knowing what will happen?

Answer: I am not really sure if this is the right answer, but caterpillars don’t anticipate or understand what the future has in store for them. They don’t have enough reasoning ability to think about the why's of their life.

I think we tend to assume animals understand why they do things just because humans do. There is no “knowing “ or awareness of what they are doing. They are following what seemed like some kind of genetic programming, or instincts, and probably evolution.

They are not “conscious” of themselves or why they go about doing what they do. Everything that they do is driven by some kind of blueprint acquired over millions of years of evolution. And it is this blueprint that determines, how, when and what they do thru out their entire lifespan.

Homo Sapiens is the only known species on Earth that considers the “why” of anything.