3. More curiosity-driven than fact-driven

Definitely, within the context of the question. Facts, however, are only an intermediary convenience--they depend on frameworks, on how you leave out aspects of reality and what fits; they depend, also, on the way you choose to perceive or measure. Data structures are necessarily distorted because they reflect a partial slice of a moment and take it out of its full context in time. But withal, they arte useful tools to pose and solve problems with.

But the truly curious mind is always looking for the next paradigm or the new framework in which to built a more embrasive model of existence, and this is true of scientific people, philosophical people, technical folks, artists, and religious people. It is probably true, though, that you find fewer truly curious minds among those self-qualifying as religious people, I would guess.

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