The question is - how explicitly? You, for example, can take a course in movie criticism and change how you see movies by applying patterns you are given there.

The question is - how explicitly? You, for example, can take a course in movie criticism and change how you see movies by applying patterns you are given there. It's a question of are there meta-patterns and meta-meta patterns. I've done things where a minimal set of rules in a filter led to very mildly emergent phenomena in control systems. I didn't tell it what the answers were; I told it how to find the answer ( this is much less impressive than it sounds - think of a filter into basically a running average ) . I joked that this was AI, but I'm not sure I was really joking because it's a difficult question. In the end, it was just a (perhaps unnecessarily complex) feedback leg. But it worked when nothing else would - but once you find the thing you're looking for, you tend to stop looking.