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When I think about the question of how the desire to know is triggered in a person, I invariably turn from the question of HOW to questions – WHEN and FROM WHERE.
Actually, when does a person first have a desire to know?
The desire itself first appears at the moment of birth of a person, with the first cry of the baby – ” I want to live””
Desire is an emotionally-colored, concretized need of a person for something. Any desire is just the beginning of a process. The process of something bigger. As if a spore or seed dropped in fertile soil began to sprout and develop into a sprout, so desire can begin to sprout, transforming itself into a whole life.
The desire to know refers to psychological desires, originates at an early age and develops in accordance with the leading activity of the child. In general, the desire to know can be described as the desire to know “in order to”.
When does a person want to know anything at all?
Probably, when there are explicit or implicit questions, which, in turn, remain unanswered.
The source or trigger of the desire to know can be anything, for example,
The process of the emergence of the ” desire to know” can, of course, be explained through physiology or neuropsychology, which, in my opinion, looks quite boring:
curiosity is the driving force of science.They say that The more humanity shows curiosity, following its own interest, the more we want to see, want to know. And the closer we get to understanding the nature of the universe, the more it creates new riddles and questions, and our desire to know only increases. This process seems to never end.
Albert Einstein once said that
You can read and reread a wide variety of interesting and clever answers on Yandex.Q as much as you want, but you don't have to assign anything special to yourself from what you've read. Satisfying your desire to know does not guarantee that something will be added to the” piggy bank of the mind ” and the life of an individual person will somehow change. To understand, to really know the essence of something, you need to feel “this something” on yourself, for example, by performing this or that action, observing some rule or principle, etc.p. To take something valuable for yourself, whether it is learned or read, and put it into practice, experiment with it, thus obtaining and appropriating invaluable knowledge based on your own life experience.
For me, it works in such a way that certain fragments of the acquired knowledge are overgrown with information until they are combined into a single whole.
The point is that since my youth, say at university or school, I learned a certain topic, like an excerpt from a large database, then another one, and so on…
My brain is not mature and does not find peace until these passages have acquired the necessary amount of information to merge them into one whole.
It is a thankless task to argue with Wasserman, but it seems to me that the pursuit of knowledge is not an independent process, but only a consequence of an imperfect picture of the world. That is, a person does not seek to know something, but only wants to eliminate the burning feeling of ignorance. about phenomena that for some reason seems very unusual.
We are constantly, from time immemorial, surrounded by an environment that is incomprehensible to us and try to offer it an adequate, consistent explanation. But the world is always separate, and the person is always separate, and no perfect diagram ever becomes identical to the original (as the drawing of the key is actually always worse than the real key).�
Therefore, to explain the desire for knowledge by curiosity and a love of reflection, as a respected Expert did, is like justifying the existence of a term by having synonyms in the language. Although the feeling of” anticipation of knowledge ” is felt as curiosity, the ultimate and real goal of it is precisely a complete and consistent representation, whether it is understanding musical harmony, geopolitics, or the behavior of particles in the quantum world.
But I can't even remember where the thirst for knowledge came from. She's always with me. Saves you from boredom, from heartache, from sitting at a computer without thinking(it immediately becomes useful). Probably, or it is embedded in the psyche before birth or something like that. Or it was also laid out, but did not develop.And then, under the influence of circumstances(a change of environment, a new job, travel, study, relationships), an already grown-up person discovers this ability in himself. Consequently, changes in life awaken it, the desire for knowledge. Isn't that the question?
A philosophical question! The desire to know arises from different people in different ways. I was at the presentation of one of the first bowling alleys, I really liked the game, I began to say: “How great, we need to understand the rules, then it will be even more interesting!”, and the owner's wife replied: “Nothing is necessary, the main thing is that it should be cool, and here-cool!” In a restaurant or at a party, you probably heard the question: “How delicious. How is it prepared? I'll cook it at home!” First, the desire to know arises from someone who wants to understand the essence, use it more fully, improve it, learn the same thing, and explain it to others. Second: The desire to know arises from the one who wants to appropriate, take away: “Baratino, where did you see the painted hearth?” There are many shades. Just as a person has a desire to know, so does a person. It happens that the desire to know does not arise, and most importantly, it should be cool. But bliss is harder to achieve without knowledge.
Curiosity builds up gradually. As you become interested in something, you discover more and more information about it. This information creates familiar associations in you, and therefore generates interest. Interest does not arise out of the blue. It is always associated with reflection. The more familiar you are with an area of activity, the more you have to think about it. Again, the more reasons for interest.
Let's imagine that a person's head is empty… All for the first time. You came to the library, and there are thousands of books. Usually, a person starts searching in connection with some question that interests you in the course of any activity. Interest is always an activity, and then curiosity in its purest form. Starting with some actions that are important to you, you gradually begin to accumulate information related not only to the actions that you are performing at a particular moment, but also to something close to the topic. This accumulation leads you to find information in a particular field of activity, and then you want to learn more. You get new things to think about.
It is very difficult to learn something in order to know. Memorizing and cramming is considered one of the most difficult and unpleasant activities. Training courses where you need to memorize a lot are considered the most unpleasant for participants. For example, for medical students – Anatomy. There you need to learn a lot of names of organs and their location. And for evolutionary biologists, the Anatomy course is noticeably easier, as they begin to imagine “How is the mutual arrangement of organs generated?”. You need to think, then it will be easier to imagine. All the work of our consciousness is built not on the accumulation of disparate facts, but on the processes of reflection.