How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel, create and understand ideas, theories and concepts? How does mere matter give rise to all these non-material mental states, including consciousness itself? An answer to this central question of our existence is emerging at the busy intersection of neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence, and robotics.

Prediction Machines -- Adjusting The Volume (Noise, Signal, Attention) -- The Imaginarium -- Prediction for Action -- Sculpting the Flow -- Engaging the world -- \Expecting Ourselves -- The Lazy Predictive Brain -- Being Human -- The Future of Prediction.