Why is man so curious?

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

Question: What brings me here is curiosity — to know what I don’t know — about the mind. Who am I? What’s going on actually? What’s behind everything, whatever is happening in this world — me, you, everyone. Why do we do what we are doing? We just keep on doing it without even thinking about why we are doing it. One day the life ends; we…