We are in the pattern business, Pattern recognition is our creativity.
- Pattern recognition was essential for our physical survival
- Pattern recognition modules and reward circuitry in brain are linked
So it helped us to:
- Learn to adapt to our environment more effectively.
- Develop language and communication skills.
- Create social structures and cultural systems.
- Understand complex systems and phenomena.
- Solve problems and innovate new technologies.
- Discover abstract principles and scientific theories.
- Develop aesthetic values, create artistic works and traditions, and appreciate a wide range of artistic experiences.
The brain is so fanatical about pattern that it will gladly generate patterns even where none exist. There are no overlapping triangles in this image; the brain’s pattern recognition circuits create them.
Three wayward Pac men and three pointy brackets are all that is actually printed on the page. What we see, however, are two overlapping triangles.
Pattern recognition is the most primitive form of analogical reasoning, part of the neural circuitry for metaphor.
Human Brain To understand is to perceive patterns #ideasofrichardwurman