There's a nice 5 minute video by neuroscientist Anil Seth here: https://aeon.co/videos/on-the-beholders-share-how-past-experience-influences-our-perception-of-a

There's a nice 5 minute video by neuroscientist Anil Seth here: https://aeon.co/videos/on-the-beholders-share-how-past-experience-influences-our-perception-of-art https://aeon.co/videos/on-the-beholders-share-how-past-exper... and I was going to link to Schmidhuber too - I like this page on his site: https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/creativity.html https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/creativity.html There's also a chapter about these sort of ideas in the context of music in Daniel Levitin's book This is Your Brain on Music. I'm still trying to make sense of this all myself - you've got Karl Friston's Free Energy Principle essentially saying that the brain is trying to minimise surprise. And yet if you look at the explore-exploit dilemma then 'optimism in the face of uncertainty' is a possible strategy. I'm sure there is a way to reconcile these - I don't understand the Karl Friston stuff properly yet.