Curiosity’s connection with democracy remains neglected and unexplored. Various disciplines have mostly treated curiosity as an epistemic trait of the individual. Beyond epistemology, is studied a moral virtue or vice self. frameworks, examined politically decolonially. However, all frameworks remain focused on individual rarely imply relevance to democracy. The present article departs from suc...

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 ...

Natural animals are renowned for their ability to acquire a diverse and general skill set over the course of their lifetime. However, research in artificial intelligence has yet to produce agents that acquire all or even most of the available skills in non-trivial environments. One candidate algorithm for encouraging the production of such individuals is Novelty Search, which pressures organism...

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INTRODUCTION Waterpipe smoking is harmful and addictive and can be a gateway to cigarette smoking. This study examined the association between curiosity and susceptibility to cigarette smoking among cigarette-naïve US youth who smoke waterpipe using cross-sectional data from the National Youth Tobacco Survey, 2014. METHODS Susceptibility to cigarettes was assessed using a composite index of thr...

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity”

This paper describes the architecture of SC-EUNE, a simulated artificial agent that explores uncertain and unknown environments guided by forms of surprise and/or curiosity. Besides describing the environment where it acts, we present the following components of its architecture: percepts, actions, goals, memory, surprise and curiosity generation, and deliberative reasoning/decision-making.