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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Just to add some depth to what people are saying about humans being pattern seeking animals and our survival:
Humans used pattern recognition to remember animal migration, fish spawning, plant ripening, and other natural patterns. That allowed early humans to create a more diverse diet than other animals. If you depend on a small number of food sources, you are more likely to starve if a single source fails. Humans had a diverse diet and seasonal migration to maximize food sources.
What humans did that took this to the next level was linking sky patterns to seasonal food. There are abundant surviving calendars that mark sun and moon positions to land markers (mounds, monoliths, hills, etc). So humans could mark patterns and link them, teaching them to following generations. That is why patterns are so important in our evolution.
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