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Episode 23: Celeste Kidd, UC Berkeley, on attention and curiosity, how we form beliefs, and where certainty comes from

Generally Intelligent

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Is There a Curious Mind in Adults?

There's a lot of curiosity in adults. And I don't know that we have good evidence for it decreasing over time. The space of like possible things you could be interested in is so big, it makes sense to give priority to the things about which you have some background. So as we get older and we accumulate more knowledge, it could be that the intensity is the same. It could even be that it's stronger.

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