A certain level of curiosity must be evolutionarily advantageous. It certainly aids in doing discovery!
Daniel Berlyne’s research on curiosity might offer some clues: [from Wikipedia] “His work focused on ‘why organisms display curiosity and explore their environment, why they seek knowledge and information.’
He believed that objects impact on three levels, psychophysical, environmental, and collative. The last of these was a term coined by Berlyne which attempted to describe the hedonic levels of arousal fluctuation through stimuli such as novelty, complexity, surprisingness, incongruity. Ultimately, he believed that arousal was best and most effective when at a moderate level and influenced by the complexity and novelty of the arousing object.”
When I’m doing discovery, I find myself naturally stimulated whenever I hear something new or unusual, and I’m curious to investigate it!
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