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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Our addiction to patterns is the secret to human success. We dedicate a lot of our energy-hungry brain to figuring out and storing patterns.
Patterns allow us to store knowledge, first in song and later in writing. This allows us to learn from the people who came before us and then build upon that knowledge. This is how we develop both technology and society.
Patterns can backfire. The gamblers fallacy is us trying to apply patterns to something without one. Just because we lost many times doesn’t mean the next chance has a higher chance to win. Likewise, some beliefs can be wrongly associated with patterns. For example, sacrificing humans doesn’t help us with a better harvest.
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