Being natively attracted to environments in which greater than expected amounts of prediction error are resolved is a neat way of ensuring adaptively beneficial tendencies toward play, learning, and exploration. Such creatures cannot help but seek out and prefer those parts of their world in which useful learning is currently possible. They are not at all attracted to those darkened rooms with their fully—and boringly—predictable profiles. Instead, they will constantly seek out richer environments on the edge of their current knowledge and abilities.
