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here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by Frankenstein's monster

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the reason the young doctor absolutely refuses to look under his bed all right [Young boy in bed scared]

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check the following passage we're gonna check it out quickly skim one two three

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all right one two three four five six we're done skimming okay what would be

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the best explanation for what the author means by the courser pains and pleasures [Question appears]

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which they carry in their Train all right here the potential answers and

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okay well before dissecting this quote let's

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look back at what these lines are referring to since the first sentence of

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paragraph five is still a bit vague let's just start a paragraph four well [Sentence highlighted in blue]

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what we're talking about here is knowledge and according to the passage

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the historian of every science or scientist as US less educated people [Man making a funny face]

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called those fancy academics gets his smarts from the same place from within

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whoa so in the good old days back when it was a simpler time knowledge was self [Man meditating on a cliff]

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sown these fundamental emotions like pain or pleasure were the basis of our

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interests me like me want me no like me no want monk sometimes we do things just [Man caring for an Xbox and man burning with a chore list]

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because stuff seems interesting we've all been there well experiences in our

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lives still shape the world around us even though we're wiser in this modern

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future e interwebs day and age we still act on the impulse there's a little [Frankenstein's monster gets angry over video game]

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caveman instinct in all of us UNK reason something we've developed over the years

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helps us to pursue the things we're interested in but only if we're

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interested this common knowledge we call logic and reasoning is not something we

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consciously seek simply because it'll benefit us instead the author argues [Man and woman arguing]

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that our natural curiosity leads us to pursue knowledge thesis guy is deep now

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back to our answer choices decisions we make are still based on desire so cut a

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intense emotions don't necessarily control our every thought so get rid of

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C and E and acting on instinct doesn't mean our ideas are wrong though it could

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lead to bad ideas from time to which means B is our answer basic [B answer circled in green]

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emotions can lead to greater knowledge even though there might be a few

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mistakes along the way [Scientist looking at man shaped hole in the wall]

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