Henrich's history runs practice first and understanding after: the steam engine, the balloon and the airplane existed before the causal science that explains them, and for most of history cumulative culture drove causal understanding more than the reverse. A knowledge base that admits only what it can ground will therefore trail the collective's own working practice. It needs a first-class way to record "this works and we do not yet know why", held apart from both evidence-backed claims and guesses, or it will either drop working practice or dress it up with reasons invented afterwards.

Who taught us: Joseph Henrich

Evidence 2 passages

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That is, for much of human history until recently, cumulative cultural evolution drove the emergence of deeper causal understandings much more than causal understanding drove cultural evolution.
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The device or technology pre-existed the development of any causal understanding, but, by existing, such cultural products opened a window on the world that facilitated the development of an improved causal understanding.

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