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Your Brain is Just a Prediction Machine, and Play is How It Hacks Reality
Think you're in control? Think again. William Glasser says you're just acting out your deepest psychological cravings, tweaking reality to match some idealized fantasy world in your head. But waitโWilliam T. Powers disagrees! He says you're not reacting to the world at all; you're manipulating your own perception just to feel like you're in charge.
Then Karl Friston kicks down the door with the Free Energy Principle, yelling, "Surprise is death! Minimize uncertainty or perish!" Turns out, your entire existence is just a desperate attempt to avoid the cosmic horror of the unknown.
But don't worry! Thereโs a built-in safety net: learningโa mental vaccine against future surprise. And whatโs the brainโs favorite way to train? Simulated danger. Also known as play. That's rightโyour childhood games of tag were just low-stakes war simulations designed to prevent you from short-circuiting when real chaos hits.
Meanwhile, AI researchers are out here building robots that โplayโ so they can avoid embarrassing themselves like Boston Dynamics bots on ice. Schools should take notes, but they wonโt, because they still think memorizing facts beats learning how to handle uncertainty.
So, what have we learned? Your brain is an anxious little prediction engine, constantly tweaking its world model to avoid existential dread. And play? Play is just evolutionโs way of making sure you donโt completely fall apart the first time life throws a curveball.
Click here to find out if YOU are a victim of surprise-induced existential meltdown!