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Perhaps the brain just provides a place for the patterns to live? Perhaps it is not so much searching for patterns of activity which allow it to predict the future, but allowing the patterns of activity induced by the world to grow and evolve together. Then all it has to do is modulate this evolution when the organism gets something it likes. Reward modulated hebbian learning I believe it is called. I've not read the whole paper, but it seems overly complicated and unnecessary when you consider the above conception...