<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # The nervous system survives by predicting and... > The nervous system survives by predicting and adapting to its environment, but intelligence becomes something more when a choice-maker can resist the very pressures shaping its behavior and, through a counterintuitive act, change the environment (or hold off the environment) instead of merely yielding to it. **Source:** [[breakouts/Human Machine|Human Machine]] <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->