I’m sitting here and noticing that almost every bar tender is dancing to the almost exact beat to the music. So in general I’m wondering if anyone knows why we’re so addicted to patterns? From visual to audio and so on, what drives the brain to find and replicate patterns so much? Are other animals addicted to patterns?
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Most answers here focus on the consequences of pattern recognition (evolutionary advantage, brain develeopment and so on).
But the reason why we are so addicted is much simpler (ELI5): patterns create reliability —> reliability ensures survival —> humans value survivial
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