Optimal Prediction Comes From Routine

A living organism, equipped with sensory organs, storage organs, and judgment organs, perceives — for as long as it is alive — various conditions and their consequences through its sensory organs. And, within the range allowed to it, it accumulates its own learned experiences in its storage organ.
Then, throughout its existence, when familiar conditions reappear among the many conditions it encounters — conditions that, within the range its storage can recall, once produced good or bad outcomes — it begins to focus its attention.




Optimal prediction comes from routine.

Prediction comes from finding patterns in data, but
the accuracy of prediction can be nearly perfect if you can pile data inside a pattern (a frame).
The performance of chatbots and AI assistants works like this.
So does plastic recycling.
Of course the properties of the material itself matter, but in the end the final outcome
depends on how it was made in the first place and how it is made to be used.

It resembles, too, the outcomes of our own lives chasing success.
What we call our judgment, in fact, becomes object-oriented.