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DANI S. BASSETT: Yes, so great to be here.

DANI S. BASSETT: So yes, for a little bit of the history-- so Perry and I are twins.

DANI S. BASSETT: Yeah.

DANI S. BASSETT: Yeah, exactly.

DANI S. BASSETT: Yeah, absolutely.

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?

DANI S. BASSETT: Yeah, that's a really great question.

DANI S. BASSETT: Yeah.

DANI S. BASSETT: Yeah.

DANI S. BASSETT: Yes, absolutely.

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 even

DANI S. BASSETT: I think I'm really interested more in the curiosity that is present in people who are

DANI S. BASSETT: Yeah.

DANI S. BASSETT: Yeah, it actually makes me think-- oh sorry, Sanders, were you about to say something?

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

DANI S. BASSETT: Yeah.

DANI S. BASSETT: Yeah, OK.

DANI S. BASSETT: Yes.

DANI S. BASSETT: Yeah, it's interesting.

DANI S. BASSETT: I think maybe one key difference is going to be the time involved, though.

DANI S. BASSETT: Yeah.

And it's my pleasure to welcome Perry Zurn and Dani S. Bassett to Talks to Google today to discuss their new book,

DANI S. BASSETT: Well, there definitely can be-- I mean, the more that you acquire information,

DANI S. BASSETT: Yeah.

DANI S. BASSETT: Yeah.

Equal parts scientific, philosophical, and literary inquiry, Zurn and Bassett develop a relational interpersonal model of knowledge cultivation that draws

DANI S. BASSETT: Or Sanders, yeah.