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Why do human beings devote so much time and effort to the acquisition of knowledge?

First of Berlyne's (1954) framing questions; answered by curiosity as expected free energy minimization (novelty)

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Active Inference, Curiosity and Insight

(2017) · Karl Friston · Marco Lin · Chris Frith · Giovanni Pezzulo +2

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Curiosity manifests as active sampling of the world to minimize uncertainty about hypotheses for states of the world, driven by novelty-seeking policies that resolve ignorance about contingencies.
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Formal definition of curiosity within active inference framework

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