Curiosity is a forward-driving force generated by the gap between known and unknown

Evidence

First and most basically, it is enjoyable. Curiosity, something we know most of all from childhood, is a forward-driving force that derives from the differential between what is known and not known. Even morbid curiosity assumes there is something you haven’t seen that you’d like to see, creating a kind of pleasant sensation of unfinished-ness and of something just around the corner. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 373

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Category: Definitional Content