The Predictive Mind: The Power of Your Brain to Predict the Future

  It’s fascinating how your brain, a pound-and-a-half mass enclosed within a bony skull, can perform tasks as sophisticated as ‘predicting the ‘future’. In fact, you use your predictive mind without really realizing it on a daily basis. None of us are superheroes, but we do have extraordinary qualities. So much so that many neuroscientists often refer to the brain as ‘a predictive machine’. This is because, even though we live our lives in the present, we make predictions about tomorrow all the time. We do it to survive, to adapt to an environment that’s always uncertain. For example, say…