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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1) It comes naturally to humans to try to recognize a common pattern in words, symbols, numbers, shapes, etc
2) Once a known pattern is discovered or recognized by the subconscious mind, the brain seeks out confirmation of the pattern
3) After being consciously aware of the pattern occuring, every time that the recognition of that pattern is reinforced, your brain rewards you with a mild hit of neurologically pleasing chemicals, making you feel good about finding this pattern
5) When the pattern is disrupted, even if it’s not consciously noticed, the brain senses that the pattern is off and it creates a negative feedback; the feeling that ‘something is off’ may occur
8) Eventually the disruption in the pattern becomes large enough that it breaks past the subconscious to the conscious mind and the brain reacts in two ways – irritation that the pattern has been broken and some sense of relief in having find out what was ‘off’ about things
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