The Compulsion to Reply: Why Does the Human Brain Hate to Ignore a Question?

Why do we have to answer to every question? Why human brain is not designed to ignore a question?

Why do we have to answer to every question? Why human brain is not designed to ignore a question?

We are storytellers. We dream up worlds that don't exist and feel changed by them. Throughout history, most stories flickered like mayflies, alive for a day, gone by the next.
But the Ramayana and the Mahabharata? Thousands of years old and still thriving — mutating across languages, shaping the moral instincts of over a billion people.
Why these stories? Why are they timeless?

So many news, so much information - How do you know which claims are correct and which are not? If a newspaper writes an article starting 'A recent study said that' - should you believe the article? Carl Sagan gave a common man's toolkit to detect BS.