Experimental Reason and Wonder

Spinoza, in apparent response to Descartes, denies that Wonder is an emotion, arguing that it is an isolated concept that halts Mind, because of its lack of connection to any other concept.  An elaboration of that definition could further take into account that in Wondering, Reason seeks to not only discover such connections, but to actively create them, as well.  His model of Mind thus demonstrates how questioning is not, as some Logicians have it, a mere psychological attitude that is extrinsic to the proper functioning of Reason, namely, to draw inferences, but is, itself, an intrinsic mode of Reason.  Accordingly that model also shows how Experimental Reason, which wonders 'what if?', is a mode of pure Reason.