Are You Illogical?
Looking for a pattern is a completely legitimate style of thinking. It doesn't use logic. It counts features.
Tag: pattern-matching
Pattern-Matching, Similarity, and Almost Gate
If two inputs are almost the same, downstream ,in the brain, they become the same.*
Two Methods of Learning
We can learn in two ways, by words in the academic and bypattern-matching in the creative.
Patterns and Creative Work
Patterns are good to start creative work, but concrete details are needed to be understandable to others and to finish the creation. An example, I know a person who uses 'always' when something happens twice…
Two Methods of Thinking
Pattern-matching, like analogy, where we treat partial matches like exact fits. It's possible to make errors. It's possible to jump to a good answer without complete information. This is the source of much intuition and…
Can you think without words?
Yes, you can think without words; but many people are so well-schooled that words overwhelm their non-verbal thoughts.
Intuition and Reasoning
A lower neural threshold requires fewer matching features to declare a similarity.