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There are so many theories regarding human cognition that you can certainly find something that is close to "autocomplete". A Hopfield network, for example.

Roots of predictive coding theory extend back to 1860s.

Natalia Bekhtereva was writing about compact concept representations in the brain akin to tokens.

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> There are so many theories regarding human cognition that you can certainly find something that is close to "autocomplete"

Yes, you can draw interesting parallels between anything when you're motivated to do so. My point is that this isn't parsimonious reasoning, it's working backwards from a conclusion and searching for every opportunity to fit the available evidence into a narrative that supports it.

> Roots of predictive coding theory extend back to 1860s.

This is just another example of metaphorical parallels overstating meaningful connections. Just because next-token-prediction and predictive coding have the word "predict" in common doesn't mean the two are at all related in any practical sense.