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Perry Zurn is an associate professor of philosophy at American University and the author of "Curiosity and Power-- The Politics of Inquiry."Dani S. Bassett is the J. Peter Skirkanich professor of bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2014.Thank you so much for joining us Perry and Dani.

Thanks for having us.DANI S. BASSETT: Yes, so great to be here.Great. Great. So to kick off this conversation, one thing I'm curious about is how you both became curious about curiosity, what started you on the journey of researching and writing

And Dani is particularly adept at telling the early moments.DANI S. BASSETT: So yes, for a little bit of the history-- so Perry and I are twins.And we were homeschooled from preschool through 12th grade.

Yeah, for us, that was so exciting-- really, to be surprised by some of the resonances between our fields that we didn't know until we started really getting into it.DANI S. BASSETT: Yeah.Well, and I also think that that interdisciplinary conversation is sort of necessary in this case-- not just wonderful, but necessary.

That has really cool implications for network neuroscience.DANI S. BASSETT: Yeah, exactly.I think that that connective nature then motivates us to ask how, would we understand how people connect things up together,

Dani, might want to just chat about what an edge is compared to a node?DANI S. BASSETT: Yeah, absolutely.So individual pieces of information or individual networks might be nodes inside of the network or items in the network, right?

That's what curiosity really is for us.DANI S. BASSETT: Yeah, and I also think that it's important to dig deeply and say, what does that connectional account afford to a human?So why isn't it that we couldn't just have a collection?

And I'm wondering, how would you describe your curiosity, each of you?DANI S. BASSETT: Yeah, that's a really great question.Sorry, Perry, you were about to answer.

Dani, I don't know if you want to speak for yourself there.DANI S. BASSETT: Yeah.I do, but I also kind of want to underscore the fact that these three styles are not haphazardly created.

you did with Wikipedia and observing people's web browsing habits.DANI S. BASSETT: Yeah.I was wondering if you'd talk a bit about what our Wikipedia surfing patterns tell us about our personalities.

I was wondering if you'd talk a bit about what our Wikipedia surfing patterns tell us about our personalities.DANI S. BASSETT: Yes, absolutely.So this is work that was led by David Lydon-Staley, who is someone that we collaborated with.

You were alluding to that a little bit earlier.DANI S. BASSETT: Yeah, so there are different parts of the brain that have been shown to become activated when people are curious or when they are evenseeing these patterns of information-seeking or wanting to know.

I'm curious if there are any further developments that you're hoping to see explored a bit more.DANI S. BASSETT: I think I'm really interested more in the curiosity that is present in people who areneuroatypical or neurodiverse. And I think I'm interested to know more about the ways in which their curiosity may

How might I learn better to recognize that?DANI S. BASSETT: Yeah.Sorry. Sanders, you were going to say more.

walking has been thought of as this exploratory activity.DANI S. BASSETT: Yeah, it actually makes me think-- oh sorry, Sanders, were you about to say something?

walking has been thought of as this exploratory activity.DANI S. BASSETT: It makes me think about the way that we model our curiosity to other people or might notice the curiosity of somebody else

walking has been thought of as this exploratory activity.DANI S. BASSETT: Yeah.

walking has been thought of as this exploratory activity.DANI S. BASSETT: Yeah, OK.

walking has been thought of as this exploratory activity.DANI S. BASSETT: Yes.

walking has been thought of as this exploratory activity.DANI S. BASSETT: Yeah, it's interesting.

walking has been thought of as this exploratory activity.DANI S. BASSETT: I think maybe one key difference is going to be the time involved, though.

walking has been thought of as this exploratory activity.DANI S. BASSETT: Yeah.

Hello, everyone. My name is Sanders Kleinfeld.And it's my pleasure to welcome Perry Zurn and Dani S. Bassett to Talks to Google today to discuss their new book,"Curious Minds-- The Power of Connection." If you're joining us on the live stream today, we'll be doing audience Q&A at the end of the talk.

have no immediate utility or maybe even no long-term utility?Any theories? DANI S. BASSETT: Well, there definitely can be-- I mean, the more that you acquire information,the more likely you will have acquired pieces of information that will be useful in the future, where there is a long-term probabilistic utility that

walking has been thought of as this exploratory activity.Was it it? DANI S. BASSETT: Yeah.

walking has been thought of as this exploratory activity.Dani? DANI S. BASSETT: Yeah.

"Curious Minds" is a multidisciplinary exploration of human curiosity.Equal parts scientific, philosophical, and literary inquiry, Zurn and Bassett develop a relational interpersonal model of knowledge cultivation that drawsfrom the nascent field of network science, recent discoveries in neuroscience, and the wisdom of ancient and contemporary artists and thinkers from a variety of cultural traditions.

walking has been thought of as this exploratory activity.Or Sanders, yeah. DANI S. BASSETT: Or Sanders, yeah.