Curiosity, place and wellbeing: encouraging place-specific curiosity as a ‘way to wellbeing’

The power of place -health and wellbeing boards in 2017

Curiosity about Curiosity

Ilhan Inan’s (2012) approach to curiosity is based on the following central theses: (i) for every question asked out of curiosity there is a corresponding term (defi nite description) that is inostensible for the asker (its reference is unknown) and that has the function of uniquely identifying an object; (ii) the satisfaction of curiosity is always in the form of coming to know an object as fa...

Specific curiosity as a cause and consequence of transformational creativity

This paper describes a framework by which creative systems can intentionally exhibit transformational creativity. Intentions are derived from surprising events in a process based on specific curiosity. We argue that autonomy of intent is achieved when a creative system directs its generative processes based on knowledge learnt from within its creative domain, and develop a framework to elaborat...

Curiosity as a Survival Technique

In this paper we present a system that motivates adaptive, curious behavior in a robot in a survival scenario. We continue prior work done on using evolutionary algorithms and neural nets to develop a robot controller capable of collecting energy in a simulated survival environment. Neural nets are efficient for producing survival behavior, but the robot only knows how to respond to stimuli it ...

Curiosity

This is editorial letter 15, which I submit to you as your Editor-in-Chief of International Surgery, the flagship Journal of the International College of Surgeons. International Surgery has had ten Editorsin-Chief since establishment of the Journal and I am the 11th Editor-in-Chief. Curiosity is, in part, what drives achievement and progress. Albert Einstein is quoted: ‘‘The important thing is ...