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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It’s really as simple as: if there weren’t patterns, how could you know anything? If everything in life was completely unique, and happened only once, every event totally different from every other event, it would all seem random and unknowable. Patterns are the only way we can do any better than random chance with life!

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