"surprise is believed to be a necessary trigger for associative learning" sciencedirect.com/science/articl
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"an event is surprising when the distance between posterior and prior distributions of beliefs *over all models* is large" (emphasis mine)
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Been, reading it backwards starting from your last related tweet. This is really interesting!
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this is the final piece of this week's upcoming ribbonfarm post
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Ah, surprise. My favorite emotion. Sometimes I think it's the only one I'm capable of.
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to self-analyze, surprise does seem to trigger all sorts of pattern matching algorithms in muh brain.
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You can only measure size of leap later in a metric space where "distance" is defined
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in super-fringe, there is the idea that time-space is real & pineal gland is an eye for navigating it
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Pineal gland theory is not super-fringe. Well known in phil of mind, kinda debunked.
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really? im surprised your familiar with the theory. any names come to mind as writing on it?
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I think I've seen it in books by Dennett and/or Penrose. Iirc Descartes pushed idea.
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pineal gland made of rods and cones. third eye of yore. meditate to travel inner spaces. makes sense.
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