The general idea that brains anticipate the future, that they engage in prediction, and that one means of doing this is through some sort of inner model that can be run of?ine, hasalonghistory. SomeversionoftheideawascommontoAristotle, aswell as to many medieval scholastics, to Leibniz and Hume, and in more recent times, to Kenneth Craik and Philip Johnson-Laird. One reason that this general idea recurs continually is that this is the kind of picture that introspection paints. When we are engaged in tasks it seems that we form images that are predictions, or anticipations, and that these...
The general idea that brains anticipate the future, that they engage in prediction, and that one means of doing this is through some sort of inner mod...
