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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As far as dancing goes, we’re designed to sync up in physical movements. When we walk in pairs, for example, our strides come into sync. When we have engaging conversations, our respiratory systems and even our heartbeats come into sync over time. That’s less about our big pattern making brains and more about our hormonal and central nervous systems.
At the extreme, in a large crowd for example, human beings can become so deeply entrained that they can act before impulses even make it to our frontal lobes. Durkheim referred to this as “collective effervescence.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_effervescence
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