A lot of traditions of knowledge die because they aren’t useful and lose out to competitors and that’s okay. Often useful bits get used by other traditions and the work of the founder of a tradition wasn’t in vain.
Yeah. I think curiosity is the main ingredient. If you’re curious, you can restore a tradition from a book just fine, and probably add your own stuff in the process, as Renaissance scholars did.
That leaves the question of whether curiosity itself is culturally transmitted. But I think it’s innate, children have it when parents don’t.
A lot of traditions of knowledge die because they aren’t useful and lose out to competitors and that’s okay. Often useful bits get used by other traditions and the work of the founder of a tradition wasn’t in vain.
Yeah. I think curiosity is the main ingredient. If you’re curious, you can restore a tradition from a book just fine, and probably add your own stuff in the process, as Renaissance scholars did.
That leaves the question of whether curiosity itself is culturally transmitted. But I think it’s innate, children have it when parents don’t.