Our paper “wilds” the popular picture of biological brains as prediction machines. We explore the many ways embodied predictive brains support emotion and action, building minds that extend into surrounding social, cultural and technological landscapes.

The human uniqueness of MTT has been discussed in the context of autonoetic awareness—leading comparative research to a deadlock since this type of consciousness is empirically intractable in nonverbal populations. Recently it has been argued that it is the temporal component that makes this ability uniquely human—the temporal aspect can be tested in nonverbal populations.