eli5 why are humans so addicted to patterns?

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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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We are descendants of the small upright walking apes in Africa that could distinguish the pattern of the sound of the footfalls of a Big Cat in the tall grass from the pattern of the rustling of the grass caused by a breeze.

We are stuck with a thing for patterns because they have real survival value.

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