If the goal of the brain as a probabilistic predictive system is to minimise 'surprisal' then there are times when the only thing that is surprising is how easy this is. This is when you are lost in a field of minor surprises. But experience is inconceivably vast and alive while you are forced to draw your conclusions from the merest atom of it.
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