Taunton & Somerset NHS Foundation Trust

What the Mind Does Not Know, the Eyes Do Not See: How Learned Representation Governs Surprise, Deployment and Change Detection

An event can reach the eye, be transduced and remain decodable in sensory features without becoming a meaningful change for an agent. Calling this failure “inattention” hides a deeper dependency: prediction error is measured against a learned model, and a model cannot be selectiv...