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1. Predictive Coding

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   Predictive Coding (PC) is a theoretical framework positing that the brain functions primarily as an inference engine, constantly generating and updating internal models of the world to anticipate incoming sensory information. Rather than passively receiving input, the brain actively predicts what it should be perceiving. Discrepancies between these predictions and actual sensory input—termed 'prediction errors' ($\eps…