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Citation needed. The way I see it brains have a lot of baked in behaviour that isn't tuned at runtime, e.g. the length of time that different types of things are kept in different types of memory is remarkably consistent.



It's definitely an extremely well supported fact that brains make predictions about the future in order to optimize various things.


If your argument is "anything that attempts to make predictions is a good idea because it's like a brain", that seems enormously fallacious.


My argument is that brains are cool, brains do this thing, ergo this thing might be cool.


If "this thing" is just "making predictions", that's still so broad as to be more or less meaningless.




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