Conjecture

Under active inference a cue is attended only while attending to it is expected to resolve uncertainty, so learning stops wherever expected information gain runs out and does not restart by itself when the world changes. Once a first cue predicts the outcome, actions toward a redundant second cue carry no expected information gain about states, so the second cue is not sampled and nothing about it is learned: blocking as an epistemic habit. A cue first met as uninformative loses its novelty and is ignored, and the policy of ignoring it persists even if the cue later becomes informative: latent inhibition as the same habit kept after the world that justified it is gone. The exploration built into expected free energy therefore switches off exactly where corroboration, or evidence that the world has changed, would arrive, because nothing in the objective revisits a spent cue.

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