[nye2k]

The explore/exploit tradeoff immediately seems like a natural connection to some synaptic pruning and forking research that has been popping up around neurodiverse brain patterns.

Is the individual following a typical known neural path to find the berries because they have already learned it to be successful?

Or are they instead connecting new neural pathways along the way and following atypical unanswered thought threads in an attempt to find a new and better option... for some motivated reason?

Seems more useful to study over a longer term, across many similar tasks.