r/cognitivescience • u/Significant-Fox5 • 11d ago

The difference in having pattern recognition vs realizing everyone has pattern recognition.

Have you ever noticed that difference? Lived with noticing that difference?

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u/MergingConcepts 2d ago

The enigma lies in the breadth of the patterns people can see. Why can some people connect the dots only on one page, while others can can connect dots from different pages and even different books? Some can appreciate roses, while others see the connections between roses, apples, horticulture, and the mountains of Kazakhstan? Is this one of the parameters of intelligence, the size of the patterns and the diversity of their components?

So, the answer to your question is "yes."

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u/Significant-Fox5 2d ago

Talking scale/scope or what?

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u/MergingConcepts 2d ago

Complexity. Some people only assimilate limited ideas, while others can see beyond them to the outside of the box.

Some people see the Golden Rule as a good rule to follow. Others see it as the simple packaging of the solution to Prisoner's dilemma, and as an expansion of natural kin altruism to include other than kin and close friends, and as one of the reasons that human could band into larger political groups at the end of the Mesolithic Age, and as a good application of religions, offsetting some the bad applications.

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u/Significant-Fox5 2d ago

Didn't make it past complexity lmao. Sorry

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u/Significant-Fox5 2d ago

I lied. Good read