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Predictive Technologies: Can Smart Tools Augment the Brain's Predictive Abilities?   Pezzullo, G., D'Ausilio, A., Gaggioli, A.  Frontiers in Neuroscience 10(186) · May 2016    Abstract.  The ability of “looking into the future”—namely, the capacity of anticipating future states of the environment or of the body—represents a fundamental function of human (and animal) brains. A goalkeeper who tries to guess the ball’s direction; a chess player who attempts to anticipate the opponent’s next move; or a man-in-love who tries to calculate what are the chances of her saying...