The brain's active process of generating expectations about future sensory input and events based on prior experience.
From Latin 'praedictio' meaning 'a foretelling,' from 'praedicere' (to foretell), from 'prae-' (before) + 'dicere' (to say).
Your brain is a prediction machine — it's constantly guessing what happens next so it can react faster. Surprise means the guess was wrong!
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