> do you deny that the brain has to set in motion the muscular activities in advance?
What do you mean by "in advance"? What does that mean? That's an empty phrase. In advance to what? When it moves the arm to catch the ball it moves to what is there right now.
> you seem to all be working on a very narrow notion of what predicting means - that it must be some explicit calculation of coordinates.
And you seem to have a very lenient definition. The guy you responded to already said that if you define the final outcome as a "prediction" then it is one. But that is meaningless, such a loose usage does not gain you anything useful.
Everything you write, for example
> That means the brain processing had to be done in anticipation of where the ball will be
seems to be a gross misunderstanding of what's going on in the brain. But others have written enough already.
There is no such thing as "anticipation" unless you go to a meta-level of interpretation that is not useful to understand those processes. You simply declare success because it succeeds - but as others pointed out, the methods are so different that using the same terms is actually bad.
What do you mean by "in advance"? What does that mean? That's an empty phrase. In advance to what? When it moves the arm to catch the ball it moves to what is there right now.
> you seem to all be working on a very narrow notion of what predicting means - that it must be some explicit calculation of coordinates.
And you seem to have a very lenient definition. The guy you responded to already said that if you define the final outcome as a "prediction" then it is one. But that is meaningless, such a loose usage does not gain you anything useful.
Everything you write, for example
> That means the brain processing had to be done in anticipation of where the ball will be
seems to be a gross misunderstanding of what's going on in the brain. But others have written enough already.
There is no such thing as "anticipation" unless you go to a meta-level of interpretation that is not useful to understand those processes. You simply declare success because it succeeds - but as others pointed out, the methods are so different that using the same terms is actually bad.