
Monica Guzman - How Can Curiosity Fix Polarization?
The Curious Task
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The Importance of Awareness
It seems to me that like this first part of this book here and especially the things you're just saying is that before you can actually check this stuff or work on it, like you actually have to be aware of it. Curiosity is only alive so long as you have your attention on a gap between what you know and what you want to know. There are many ways to artificially fill that gap, one of which is to just have an assumption and believe it. And not notice it's there. If I'm hungry, I'm hungry till I eat. It's hard to distract myself from my hunger. With curiosity, you can distract yourself from curiosity very easily. That gap is still open
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