Some thoughts I had after a forum discussion I had with William Lambos on his substack on the different Meanings of Salience
Description
Conspicuity
- conspicuous, dominant, intense, eye-catching, prominent
- loud, bright, overwhelming the senses
Novelty
- surprising, novelty, outlier, unexpected
Importance
- pertinent to the goals, values, or trained responses
- pre-cognitive pattern-matching to trigger attention
Relevance
- data and features that are needed for the task at hand
- signal vs. noise in input
- function of, or modulated by, attention?
Interestingness
- a drive for curiosity and play
- first derivative of subjective beauty or compressibility (Schmidhuber 2009)
- perceived patterns that create internal mental patterns that can be integrated or reduced in novel ways (I think)