The Importance of Predictive Models for Control

The way we perceive the outside world is built through evolution, on mechanisms that are shaped by the imperative to regulate the body. We experience how well is this physiological regulation of the body going? Is it going well, or is it going badly? And so that's why when we experience the body, we don't experience objects with shapesyet. The self is itself a perception. All of this all stem from a basic imperative to keep the body alive. If you want to control something, it really helps to be able to have a predictive model of what it is you are controlling. You can prevent something from deviating even before it has deviated. This could be simpler something like controlling a