The claim for “self-preserving” circuits is pretty strong. A much simpler explanation is that humans learn to value diversity early own because diversity of things around you, like tools, food sources, etc, improves fitness/reward.
Another non-competing explanation is that this is simply a result from boredom/curiosity—the brain wants to make observations that make it learn, not observations that it already predicts well, so we are inclined to observe things that are new. So again there is a force towards valuing diversity and this could become locked in our values.
The claim for “self-preserving” circuits is pretty strong. A much simpler explanation is that humans learn to value diversity early own because diversity of things around you, like tools, food sources, etc, improves fitness/reward.
Another non-competing explanation is that this is simply a result from boredom/curiosity—the brain wants to make observations that make it learn, not observations that it already predicts well, so we are inclined to observe things that are new. So again there is a force towards valuing diversity and this could become locked in our values.