Our brains are very good at tricking us into thinking they are universal understanders. They are not.
Our brains are very good at tricking us into thinking they are universal understanders. They are not.
Thanks to this, if there's any pattern about a phenomenon to be found, we likely can describe it already; if not, there's no good reason to believe we won't be able to describe it in the future. That is the first step towards an explanation (second being tying the pattern to theories that fit other observable evidence, and that have predictive power).
If there's absolutely no pattern to be found in a phenomenon, then it implies the phenomenon doesn't have any consequences on anything - which implies it isn't even observable in the first place. From that follows it isn't even worth thinking about.
Cats can't count. They seem to understand quantity, but they have no concept of integers.
It seems extremely rash and naive to assume that humans don't suffer from some related conceptual handicaps.
And of course we're not aware of them, by definition.
To declare that something is inexplicable is equivalent to saying it's supernatural.
Naturalism is the philosophy that everything is ultimately governed by physical laws and is therefore explicable.