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Re:Curiosity Is Better Than Being Smart? by Aeolun on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @05:54AM (#28757245)
Curiosity is whatever compels a baby to stick anything they see in their mouth.

Once you’ve figured that out, you move on to other things, but the idea is the same.

Re:Curiosity Is Better Than Being Smart? by dempedempe on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @06:24AM (#28757486)
I like this. Thinking out loud...

Maybe this could be reduced to something like "desire for novelty". But then I think that's too broad. For example, wanting the latest iPhone is a type of "desire for novelty". Would you consider someone a curious person just because they buy the latest Apple products?

Then maybe you could, instead, only consider "intellectual curiosity", where intellectual curiosity is the desire for new knowledge - descriptive knowledge, prodcedural knowledge, experiential knowledge, etc. Then I guess getting the latest iPhone is also a type of experiential knowledge, so this fails, too...