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Why, out of the infinite range of knowable items in the universe, are certain pieces of knowledge more ardently sought and more readily retained than others?

Second of Berlyne's (1954) framing questions; answered by Bayesian model reduction selecting parsimonious models

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Active Inference, Curiosity and Insight

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

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Insight ('aha moment') is produced by Bayesian model reduction—a qualitative change in generative model structure that is necessarily subpersonal and cannot be articulated at the level of the model.
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Core claim linking insight to post hoc Bayesian model optimization

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