Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Feb 9, 2017Hmm. Is curiosity necessarily tied to sociability? (Quoted tweet is about koalas)Quote TweetSt. Thomas A-fine-ass@boopmatt·Feb 9, 2017Replying to @vgrwell, they probably don't qualify as intelligent. But they are asocial, which could be considered tied to curiosity. Also sleep 20h/day3
St. Thomas A-fine-ass@boopmatt·Feb 9, 2017Replying to @vgrlikely not, but when I think of intelligent animals, orcas, dolphins, and various apes for example, I think of their social structures.11
St. Thomas A-fine-ass@boopmatt·Feb 9, 2017Replying to @boopmatt and @vgrand along with intelligence, curiosity. Hard to think of intelligence without it, but that's what you were driving at initially, right?11
Venkatesh Rao@vgrReplying to @boopmatt.@deanboop I was wondering what 'freedom' means. For non-curious it probably=freedom from pain for eg. For curious, it is prob confinement12:10 AM · Feb 9, 20171 Retweet6 Likes
𝒶𝓁𝓌𝒶𝓎𝓈 🄵🅁🄴🅂🄷@rhyolight·Feb 9, 2017Replying to @vgr and @deanboopI think you'll need to confine your thought experiment to animals without a neocortex.1
Paz: Bweep-o-ken…TIMES 4!@icalltopsolo·Feb 9, 2017Replying to @vgr and @deanboopMaybe one of those words that puts us in cognitive prison after first couple tiers of meaning. Ideas need boundary conditions