Aside from what other replies said, there's also the statistics, learning and prediction (aka ML?) that's the basis of classic compression algorithms. In fact o

Aside from what other replies said, there's also the statistics, learning and prediction (aka ML?) that's the basis of classic compression algorithms. In fact one of the current leading brain theories is named a lot like terminology from that world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_coding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_coding