My bet is reinforcement decay and strengthening exists to promote novelty rewards. Smell 1000 roses, it's a big "meh" but the identification of them becomes eas

My bet is reinforcement decay and strengthening exists to promote novelty rewards. Smell 1000 roses, it's a big "meh" but the identification of them becomes easier and better with strengthened pathways. This would be adaptive for the organism to: 1. seek new, potentially-massive rewards, stimulation rather than do the same thing over and over again without ever trying anything new 2. improve processing of stimuli that are more frequent