Thank you for speaking my language. I couldn't parse through the other comments. To build on your thoughts, curiosity for me is the short-circuit ability to fee

Thank you for speaking my language. I couldn't parse through the other comments. To build on your thoughts, curiosity for me is the short-circuit ability to feel the fun chemicals just by thinking. That moment of aha connection is what I live for. I've found my curiosity just gets me that chemical high, which is why I keep doing it and keep coming back for more. My guess is in the past this chemical high led to more food and more fitness because my ancestors spent time contemplating the world around them, leading them to figure shit out. I love your point of outsourcing information connections via culture and cognition so as to not waste space epi/genetically. But I would counter that epi/genetics lacks the dimensionality required for dot connecting the universe. That z axis can only be computed in real-time and with all the sensory waveforms mixing states across neuronal circuits. To try and code that into epi/genetics seems impossible; the feedback/react time just aren't on the same timescales. You need a flywheel connection.