Where does that road go? How does a television work? What…
Where does that road go? How does a television work? What is that tool used for? Answering these questions may have no obvious benefit for you. Exploration and curiosity appear to be motives directed toward no more specific a goal than “finding out.” Even animals will learn a behavior just to be allowed to explore the environment. Animals also seem to prefer complexity, presumably because more complex forms take longer to know and are therefore more interesting. Placed in a maze that is painted black, a rat will explore it and learn its way around. The next time, given a choice between a black maze and a blue one, it will choose the blue one. Apparently the unfamiliarity of the unknown maze has more appeal. 1. The passage implies that curiosity