The predictive brain is this idea that I only pretty much know from you. I'd never heard it before.

When we say the predictive brain, what does that mean? And what does it not mean?

So when you are living your everyday life. Yeah. Like right now. Like right now. So right now, I'm guessing

that I'm saying things to you and you're perceiving what I'm saying and then you're reacting

to it. That's how it feels to you, right? Yes. Okay. And that's how it feels to me too. So we sense

and then we react. That's the way most people experience

themselves in the world. That's not actually what's happening under the hood. Really what's

happening is that the brain, your brain is not reacting, it's predicting. And what that means is, if we were to stop time right now, just freeze time,

your brain would be in a state, and it would be remembering past experiences that are similar

to this state as a way of predicting what to do next,

like literally in the next moment.

Should your eyes move?

Should your heart rate go up?

Should your breathing change?

Should your blood vessels dilate or should they constrict? Should you prepare to

stand? Right? Movements. And these movements, the preparation for movement, literal copies of those

signals become predictions for what you will see and hear and smell and taste and think and feel.

So under the hood, your brain is predicting what movements it should engage in next

and as a consequence what you will experience because of those movements. So you act first and then you sense.

You don't sense and then react. You predict action and then you sense. So give me a example

which brings this to light of how my brain is predicting and then taking action.

Okay. So right now you and I are having a conversation and I'm speaking and you're listening.

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