Wild Minds by Marc D. Hauser
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Description: First chapter.
In one of Rudyard Kipling's charming short stories, he tells us about an elephant child with insatiable curiosity, an elephant who asked so many questions that his relatives spanked him. Curious minds, like the elephant child's, abhor ambiguities, feelings of ambivalence, and the lack of resolution. But curious minds discover uninhabited terrains of knowledge by questioning dogma and pondering the impossible. In the novelist Edith Wharton's words, if we remain "insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways," we will remain alive. Curiosity exacts a cost, but the returns are great. Although animals may not be as curious as Kipling's elephant child, they are active informavores, digesting and storing relevant information in the service of guiding behavior. Let me illustrate this idea with a few vignettes.
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