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#649 - Anil Seth - Does Your Brain Hallucinate Conscious Reality?
Modern Wisdom
The Fundamental Reason for Predictive Brains
The fundamental reason for predictive brains is rooted in the brain's necessity to control and regulate the body in order to ensure survival. Predictive capabilities allow the brain to anticipate changes and prevent errors, similar to how a control engineer uses predictive models to maintain system stability. This ability to make predictions about sensory signals serves as the foundation for further abilities such as predicting the state of the body and making perceptual predictions about the world. Ultimately, the evolution of predictive brains is driven by the fundamental imperative to stay alive, with social predictions developing later but not being considered as fundamental.
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