Not an easy answer to discover, perhaps, but probably important to know relative to whether it is ones brain or ones MIND that one is soliciting for the answer.
2006-09-15 15:58:20 · 6 answers · asked by docjp 6 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
why answers a Q ,while reason answers the intention behind the answer...thats wat i understand...
2006-09-20 06:41:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Both are the same when it comes to Purpose - to find out the answer/truth.
Both are different when it comes to language - noun, verb, adjective, etc.
Either way, based on your question, the answer is there's no difference. A person yelling "WHYYYYY?" is as desperate for an answer as another politely and yet seriously asking "Do you mind telling me the reason?"
To know whether it's the brain or the mind that ask the question, you have to find out first the difference between the brain and the mind.
Personally for me, the brain is that organic matter that control and regulate our physical conditions - to move, speak, heal, sleep, etc. And the mind is the product of the brain - a thought. We can't be sure that just because we have a mind means we are a living entity that is independent and have free will. We can't be sure if our thought is just the same like a computer's artificial intelligence (AI). The computer may be conditioned to think intelligently and eventually evolve to more advanced level and start to think that because it thinks, it is alive. Yet we know computer is a dead matter, no matter how advanced is it's thinking capability because we are the one to program it. Yet the result of our programming and self-evolution, the computer starts to have the notion that it's alive. And this notion is illusion. Just like the illusions that we continue to suffer from everyday nonstop. The illusions that we have free will, that we are independent, that we are ... These are thoughts. And thoughts may just be the result of our conditioning since the beginning of time. Thought (or mind) may just be another illusion, the same illusion suffered by a computer the moment it starts believing it is alive, is independent, have free will, etc just because it can think.
2006-09-15 16:14:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The two words mean essentially the same thing, but each has its own circumstances in which it more suitable then the other. The two words express different levels of emotion. In situations where the person inquiring the "reason" for specific behavior they will probably be asking this with a calm demeanor. The individual using the "why" would probably be hysterical like "Why didn't you tell me you had herpes"?
2006-09-15 19:06:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
First there is a 2 letter difference in the 2 words. Other then that there is not too much difference then all the letters are different in the two words.
2006-09-15 16:10:55 · answer #4 · answered by The Main Man at Yahoo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
why = reason + question
reason =answer to why
2006-09-15 16:10:44 · answer #5 · answered by deepak57 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what is the reason for asking why?
2006-09-15 16:14:31 · answer #6 · answered by Imrickjamesbeotch 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋