This is a thought that LLMs caused me to have: the emotion of surprise is just the brain model of the world discovering that it had been poorly calibrated, or making poor predictions.
> The free energy principle is based on the Bayesian idea of the brain as an “inference engine.” Under the free energy principle, systems pursue paths of least surprise, or equivalently, minimize the difference between predictions based on their model of the world and their sense and associated perception.
> The free energy principle is based on the Bayesian idea of the brain as an “inference engine.” Under the free energy principle, systems pursue paths of least surprise, or equivalently, minimize the difference between predictions based on their model of the world and their sense and associated perception.
[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_energy_principle