Long before psychology used qualitative and quantitative methods to investigate the science of curiosity as a mental state or a personality trait with corresponding behaviors, there was philosophy. And long before neuroscience used neuroimaging and data science to understand the neural circuitry and systems that precondition curiosity, there was ph

In this book, we offer a new theory of curiosity. Drawing on our own fields of complex systems and neuroscience, literature and philosophy, we propose a network account of curiosity.

In this sense, curiosity cannot simply be the need to know (which would then be satisfied with knowledge gained) or the motivation to seek information (which would then be satisfied with information secured). Rather, curiosity has to be an extending and extensive instinct, always edging around. And indeed, what could be stranger?