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Ep. 42 - Intelligence, Rationality, and Wisdom

Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

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Wonder and Curiosity - The Two Polar Opposites

Need for cognition, look at this word here, right? Also points to obviously an affective, a motivational component. This takes us into the few things I talked about before, wonder and curiosity. Although these terms are slippery, one way in which we can pick up sort of polar opposites is that curiosity is much more in the having mode,. It's much more about manipulating and controlling things while wonder ismuch more in the being mode. That's why wonder can shade into awe or potentially even into horror.

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