against information about the world it has stored in its brain somehow. This looks more like comprehension because the selective process is both information-sensitive and forward-looking, but the Popperian creature need not understand how or why it engages in this pretesting. The “habit” of “creating forward models” of the world and using them to make decisions and modulate behavior is a fine habit to have, whether or not you understand it. Unless you were a remarkably self-reflective child, you “automatically” engaged in Popperian lookahead and reaped some of its benefits long before you
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