Why are we so curious? (#1986)

I have tried to come up with the logic necessary to correlate our curiosity to a genesis. The only link I can reason is the one with survival. We as a species, like all species, try mightily to survive from our first breath to our last breath. That nature to survive is reflected in how we think of ourselves. Eventually we perceive our senses and then ask the great question of all time; Why? No doubt all of us get to that question sooner than later but in that realization of asking ourselves why, we experience our curiosity. A natural trait that allows us to separate from the other species on this planet in that we have other abilities that give our curiosity means for action. We give our forming brains the foundation for knowledge retrieval through our senses and then with an amazing twist we can remember what has happened to us from our first awareness. Not all of us can remember every detail from our memories, but generally we maintain a library of sorts in our minds from which we can access information. It is a complex fascinating ability we humans have. We have also learned to communicate with each other and with several of our more advanced lesser species. In this ability to communicate we have further fostered a higher order of questioning. It seems that the more we learn from new knowledge the less we are able to be absolutely certain. Of course there are some things like facts that are consistent but only within limited context. The more information we add to our knowledge the less we are able to blanket all of existence in the same way. Our species has moved beyond the confines of our planet and we now can think in terms of our Universe to some little degree. More will be revealed but the paradigms we knew from the past will not fit nicely into the paradigms of the future.