“Monkey brains and baby human brains add what they already know (the past) to what they currently see (the present) to predict what will happen next (the future). When the actual next thing is different from the predicted next thing, monkeys and babies experience suprise. Our brains were made for nexting, and that’s just what they’ll do.
…it is difficult to imagine what our lives would be like if our brains quit making them (predictions), leaving us completely ‘in the moment’ and unable to take our next step. But while these automatic, continuous, unconscious predictions of the immediate, local, personal future are both amazing and ubiquitous, they are not the sorts of predictions that got our species out of the trees and into dress slacks.”
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