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Mind maths: Your personal prediction machine
The brain's crystal ball may arise from a blend of cunning statistics and a technique that minimises surprises, linked to the laws of thermodynamics
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The brain's crystal ball may arise from a blend of cunning statistics and a technique that minimises surprises, linked to the laws of thermodynamics
We are beginning to understand how our brains shape our dreams, and why they contain such an eerie mixture of the familiar and the bizarre