UNIGE scientists developed a neuro-computer model which helps explain how the brain identifies syllables in natural speech. The model uses the equivalent of neuronal oscillations produced by brain activity to process the continuous sound flow of connected speech. The model functions according to a theory known as predictive coding, whereby the brain optimizes perception by constantly trying to predict the sensory signals based on candidate hypotheses (syllables in this model). (1)

Doing thing by predicting them.

How else?

We constantly try to predict things. We constantly try to watch the future. So that we can live the present. So that we can do things now. But the future is not too far away. It has already cast its shadow upon. How can you know it anyway?

Think.

There is no way to know what you do not know.

There is no way not to know what you already do.

There is no prediction.

Everything lies in the past.

Here and now.

And the only future you can experience is forgetting about it…

And start talking…

Until there is nothing to say anymore.

Until silence prevails once more.

Until you pause and predict.

I will talk again!