At first I expected this to be something about the process of synaptic pruning, which doesn’t seem to work for people with autism and could be a big part of how

At first I expected this to be something about the process of synaptic pruning, which doesn’t seem to work for people with autism and could be a big part of how autism works. I guess in retrospect this is only somewhat related to prediction in that the brain has to predict which pathways will be used and which won’t in the future, and eliminate the less used (and less valuable) ones. That’s really a key process to learning and associating things, which sort of ties into what’s described in this article.