Curiosity on Humans Extended Argumentative Essay

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Martin Gauto Mr. Bigler AP English 25 November 2012 I Wonder, What Makes Me Wonder? Above these first few words you have started reading, officially, you may find three different definitions of the word “curious”. One could find it ironic that what drives you to keep on reading these lines is actually the same thing that is found defined above and that which will be discussed here: curiosity. Go ahead and notice the second definition provided (number 2, not letter b): “marked by desire to investigate and learn”. That intrinsic feeling we get when faced with something unknown to us leads us on to act and figure out what this would be. We, as humans, crave for knowledge. It’s inherent to us, native, and it’s born with us. Many people, like Donald Latumahina, argue that curiosity may be trained and developed by oneself. What this means is that some people could be much less eager to satisfy their intellectual needs than others (maybe not even at all?). You are a curious person; you probably like to know things. Ignorance is not your thing, am I right? Cling on this thought. Take a moment to go over your past day up till this moment, what have you done? Depending on what your clock is reading right now, there is a chance you started out with breakfast to satisfy your physical hunger, and then moved on to the newspaper. This act demonstrates that you actually have another kind of hunger: knowledge strife. A paper titled The wick in the candle of learning [...], authored by many in the California Institute of Technology, make a nice analogy like this one. These authors went ahead and looked at brain activity of people while presented with trivia questions in order to see what happens there. What came out of this experiment was the interesting discovery that while people were waiting for the answers to be revealed (to the trivia questions), activity in parts of

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