This is a CBSI in the world. I'm John Bachelor, Professor Andy Clark, the author of the new book The Experience Machine, highly it because it makes it very clear that

everything you have, everything you are, including your iPhone, including your text

messaging with mom, all of that is your mind. That is how you are predicting and

correcting the errors that you make if I follow the professor's language. So we

come to the tools that we have, similar to what an orangutan named

meagoe uses when crossing a river or when someone who is New to New York uses when finding the Museum of Modern Art.

Let's start with Migo.

Migo is an orangutan with a skill set and he has a mind clearly. What is this skill set and what do we make of it

professor yeah so the meagoe case is is a cool one I think it's an orangutan me

you go another orangatang's this too, but mego is a kind of

of poster child. When the orangutan approaches a river, it grabs a nice long

stick and it uses a stick to probe the depth of the water before

venturing into the river because if it's too deep or the current's too strong

not a good idea to try to cross right now. So what amigo is doing here in predictive

process in terms, the account pursued in a book, is taking action in the world

to try to reduce their own uncertainty about what's going to happen next.

So it's all tied into the idea they're busy predicting what's going to happen next,

but there are uncertainties there and they need to get rid of them by in this case sticking the stick into the water.

We do things like that too.

You know if I want to go to the cinema tonight to see a particular movie, I'll probably fire up the internet to work out, you know, when the movie is showing and where it's showing.

That's me taking the kind of action, very much like me go with the stick. I think any animal whose brain has a time horizon,

that's to say it can look a little bit into the future, can kind of be asking itself what action can I take

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