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On the closing of "Why is mathematics complicated"

This question Why is Mathematics Complicated! has been closed, but I consider it a very important question and also I don't see why it is not appropriate for this site?
Can you please explain why it is not acceptable or even better help to reopen it?
It is true that the answer to the question is not a number - so one cannot simply take the question and feed it into the calculator (or look it up in the dictionary like some of the other recent questions) and post the result as an answer, but it is my hope that this site doesn't become a human powered calculator. The singular thing which a site like this is can do, that others cannot is have people who have understood things share their understanding - this (deep) question should be a good catalyst for this but instead, to my disappointment is just shut down!

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I'm ambivalent.  I would not have voted to close the question but I am not sure I want to vote to reopen it either.  I agree that it has the potential for interesting answers, but as has been on discussed on meta.MO many times, the potential for interesting answers is not, by itself, enough to justify keeping a question open.  The question just strikes me as too philosophical, although I think it could be reworded without much effort into a much more precise question.
A question of roughly comparable level of philosophicality was asked on MO once and was closed, but I decided to re-ask it on my blog because I thought that was a better medium for it.  Perhaps if someone else is interested they could do the same.

