Sublime

Curiosity is a drive to acquire new information, or to gain new perspectives and new skills. It is through the acquisition of new information that new possibilities for the organism (and social organism) become activated. While that acquisitional (and novelty-centric) account has been useful over the years in studying curiosity from a variety of fi

Diversive curiosity follows no particular process or method, but slides from one novel object of attention to the next.

being curious means wanting to find out about things you don’t yet care about and aren’t interested in – things you didn’t know you were interested in until you find out that you are.

Or at least that is what we propose, and we have good reason for doing so. For while curiosity has largely been understood on the model of epistemic acquisition for millennia, other conceptual possibilities are buried in that same history.

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