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#84: The Brain of a Mental Olympian - Elena Antonova, PhD

The FitMind Podcast: Mental Fitness, Neuroscience & Psychology

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The Brain as a Predictive Machine

The idea of the brain as a predictive machine, I think, has really become the mainstream neuroscience view. And it makes sense, like you said, from an evolutionary perspective that we're always trying to predict the future world. We're not saying just don't use it altogether. It's just that once you're doing what you know you should be doing, the ability to turn off that function or minimize it is such a valuable skill to have.

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