Some people disagree: https://www.quantamagazine.org/to-make-sense-of-the-present-brains-may-predict-the-future-20180710/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/to-make

Some people disagree: https://www.quantamagazine.org/to-make-sense-of-the-present-brains-may-predict-the-future-20180710/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/to-make-sense-of-the-present-... This is a pop-sci article, so take it with a grain of salt, but there is a growing body of research that attempts to frame many cognitive processes as inherently predictive (inferential?). I think this view arises pretty naturally when you start thinking about us having a 'model' of reality that we is updated based on sensory information, but I digress. I think I see where you're coming from. A human might not be 'predicting', since the term has some kind of temporal element connotation. But we could say that it's 'inferring' what the photo represents?