Wow, it is nice to find another "thinker"...gratitude to you. There are many aspects you could look at. However, if retrodiction is intriguing to you then combine it with the rhizomatic lines of flight (Rhizo-textual analysis). I feel that these combined bring much more flexibility when stepping back. Not to get to esoteric, but as a practitioner of the philosophical Dao (not religious) the Daoist creation theory may help iron out the kinks.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@garytyme/wing-chun-kung-fu-taoist-creation
When thinking about the preferences that create a hierarchy that has an adaptive component when it learns something new about the preference i.e. something that was not known before, this perpetuates the dynamic equilibrium in the repository that contains that qubit of information in phase space (Phase space is the area in the brain that retains the memory for a particular preference and becomes observable when one repository interacts with another repository of qubits of preferences that are selected by the recognition of cues in the environment that offer an opportunity to re-experience the preference, hence, activating that area of phase space...so not determinism, but, the twisted quantum web that functions within the whole. BIG JIGSAW PUZZLE :)
If you want, I can explain how the spiritual world is not esoteric at all, but is scientifically measurable e.g. look up exclusion zones and the affect on water and positive and negative ions, and then you will realise why animals drink from the edge of a lake or pond. This can be applied through practice of chi kung and qi-gong. Watch this and you will be amazed. Spirituality being scientifically observed on reliable and proven data gathers and image producers.
I have figured out how these two gents in the vid are doing it and it is all to do with creating exclusion zones positive-to-negative and negative-to-positive....the unity of opposites creating perpetual balance. Hence, the two gents are simultaneously projecting a bio-electromagnetic field to stabilise- and guide - a cymatic wave i.e. the sounds they make (intent).
Intentions and there affect on water...and we are water
On the AI aspect, it may be worth looking in to how to make the initial recognition of the opportunity to re-experience a preference be mediated and facilitated by satiation i.e. how much is there a desire for it e.g. delayed gratification (does it want it immediately, or, can it wait).