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A conversation between Terry Sejnowski and Stephen Wolfram (August 12, 2021) Part 2

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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The Prediction Theory Is That the Brain Is in the Business of Predicting

The theory was that, wellwhen something's moving along, you're predicting where it's going to be. And that's what you see it looks like it's a little bit head ok? Soounow, about 15 years ago, i had a post o who did an experiment which proved that that was wronga very simple experiment,. You have the same spot coming along, and it flashes, just like in the normal flash leg but instead of continuing to move forward, it goes backwards. It reverses. What this tells us is that the brain is not in the business of predicting. It's in thebusiness of postdicting its tele - reconstructing some on the basis of what

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