Quite a few old thinkers have thought up models for that kind of prediction we do. Ex: Piaget. Gary Drescher's book "made up minds" presents his PhD work buildi

Quite a few old thinkers have thought up models for that kind of prediction we do. Ex: Piaget. Gary Drescher's book "made up minds" presents his PhD work building a simulated environment and a robot in it that builds concepts about its environment through exploration.