The Best Plan Is That Which Minimizes the Surprise Expected

The ability to plan I think is really important and what does that mean from the point of view of the nature of the generative model well it simply means that to plan is to have a prediction of the consequences of action in the future. To be a true agent you have to have that curiosity you have to um so move in a way that resolves uncertainty about the state of affairs out there on the basis of your actively sampled sensations. There may be another bright line between things that move and that are not curious and things that move that are curious, he says.