ABSTRACT
Predicting what will happen next is the overarching function evolved by any brain caught in the flow of time. Even brainless bacteria and viruses have feedback loop mechanisms allowing them to anticipate future events. Mechanisms of anticipation evolved at all levels of the living. Neonates and even fetuses engage in forward timing, expecting and predicting what should happen next based on what they already know. We are born conjecturing about the future, with time forward in our mind. There is universal reprieve and enjoyment in witnessing how the odds of destiny unfold, like in sport or any story telling. Play is indeed universal. We never truly know what is going to happen next in our existence, even in the quietest of life. We can only conjecture when life will end for us, we will never know when.
