There's a growing body of evidence that most of what the brain does is constantly predicting the world around us - look into the predictive brain hypothesis if

There's a growing body of evidence that most of what the brain does is constantly predicting the world around us - look into the predictive brain hypothesis if you're interested. As Ilya Sutskever has pointed out, if you read a mystery novel up until the reveal of the culprit, and then fill in "The killer was _____", don't you need to understand the novel to accurately predict the next word?