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.
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.