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Not just the human brain, but anything that is intelligent. Life itself is a prediction machine. Evolution selects for prediction power in an energy-constrained
by Geee 5y ago
Not just the human brain, but anything that is intelligent. Life itself is a prediction machine. Evolution selects for prediction power in an energy-constrained environment.
- eevilspock 5y ago> Life itself is a prediction machine. I beg to differ. That assumes evolution is teleological, that it isn't reactive. It's like saying positive and negative feedback loops are predictive. You're diluting the meaning of "predictive" to say something that sounds deep.
- ravi-delia 5y agoParticularly when talking about predictive processing in a neurological sense, you'll often see people blending prediction and feedback loops of any kind. It sounds sort of weird and pointless at first, but the point they're trying to make is that the same circuits could work to do both. So the brain moves the arm by "predicting" extremely hard that the arm will be in a different place, and waiting for the error to go away. From the top we know that it's really just a control system, but from any given neuron's perspective it could just as easily be a predictive one.