Explanation as Orgasm*

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Reframing Human-AI Collaboration for Generating Free-Text Explanations (2021, methodology): “Our interface is inspired by prior work from psychology and the social sciences (Leake, 1991; Gopnik, 1998; Lom-brozo, 2007; Zemla et al., 2017; Chiyah Garcia et al., 2018; Clinciu et al., 2021; Sulik et al., 2021).”
Explanation and understanding (2015, background): “People do have strong senses of making cognitive advances in understanding, ranging from a visceral “rush” of understanding (Gopnik 1998) to being in a cognitive “flow” (Cziksentmihalyi 1990).”
Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) Versus Explaining for the Best Inference (EBI) (2015, background): “In an empirical hypothesis with echoes of this view, Alison Gopnik (1998) suggests that we have evolved to value explanations precisely because of their instrumental role in motivating us to identify the causal structure of the world.8”