[cubefox]

It seems that intelligence also is about explanation, apart from prediction. Humans not just try to predict future evidence from current evidence, or use the current evidence to confirm given hypotheses, but they also try to find an hypothesis which best explains this evidence. It's not quite clear how explanation would relate to compression.

[IIAOPSW]

Explanation is when the number of bits in your model is smaller than the number of bits in the system. To understand is to have a compression good enough to store in your working memory.

[kfarr]

Explanation is decompression, using a limited set of tokens to model a more complex output