This right here, this is what I’m curious about. Specifically, learned the rituals that keep it alive. That learning right there. I understand that the system uses feedback between the motor outputs and the sensory inputs to learn about its body and discover action sequences. But how does it learn which action sequences are “good”? What is the mechanism the brain uses to tell itself “this is an action sequence that you should repeat because X” and “this one should not be repeated because Y”, thereby reinforcing the neurons that contribute to X and suppressing those that induce Y?
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