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John Krakauer Part 2: Learning, Curiosity, and Consciousness

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Is There a Difference Between a Cat and a Rat?

There's a point of overlap. There's curiosity one, and there's curiosity two, and they're not the same in my view. By virtue of urban scaling and just a daily encounter with diversity, you're automatically more disposed to curiosity. The fact that there can be volatility in the environment, probability of change, which then leads to changes in the parameters of switching or changing. Even in simple motor learning tasks, you can show that you can change your learning rate as a function of how much your environment is changing. In other words, there are loads of these intelligent behaviors.

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