This is in fact the whole premise of Jeff Hawkins' book "On intelligence". Prediction is at the core of how we learn/act. Since we are born, we are just predict

This is in fact the whole premise of Jeff Hawkins' book "On intelligence". Prediction is at the core of how we learn/act. Since we are born, we are just predicting everything that will happen and our brain learns when we see/hear/sense something that we can't predict.