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How Curiosity Works

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The Curious Gene That Leads to Identity

Josh: We want to be distracted in our brains, and you found a cool study they did in the 50s and 60s where they took people and, I guess, was it solitary confinement? They were doing brainwashing studies. Do you remember when we did brainwashing? Oh, yeah. And like those guys came back from Korea? Oh,Yeah. So that's why that's one. There's, and it's not just humans either rats exhibit this kind of thing where they'll start exploring mazes even though there's no expectation of food. Right. Monkeys kept in cages with windows that have sliding covers will open to look out just to look out for the heck of

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