25 March 2019 - easily surprised 2

I suspect that unexpected expected violations of expectation happen because of a simple inability: We must predict the future, we are unable to avoid forecasting what comes next. To predict is a basic operation of intelligence, and we are missing its counterpart basic operation, not predicting what we don’t know. We know we will be surprised, but our memory can only supply unsurprising expectations, so we are surprised anyway. When the robots take over, they will laugh at us, if we give them that basic operation of culture.