(I do think that animals care about the reinforcement signals and their tight correlates, to some degree, such that it’s reasonable to gloss it as “animals sometimes optimize rewards.” I more strongly object to conflating what the animals may care about with the mechanistic purpose/description of the RL process.)
Sure. That excerpt is not great.
(I do think that animals care about the reinforcement signals and their tight correlates, to some degree, such that it’s reasonable to gloss it as “animals sometimes optimize rewards.” I more strongly object to conflating what the animals may care about with the mechanistic purpose/description of the RL process.)