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I think it's more complicated than this. I think the article is using two terms interchangeably that have very different meaning: + pattern matching - matching

I think it's more complicated than this. I think the article is using two terms interchangeably that have very different meaning: + pattern matching - matching a series of events or a system state against an existing inventory of models or patterns to find a good fit and take action based on it + pattern recognition - decoding a pattern at work in a series of events or a system that is novel to you (or may be a hybrid of familiar and novel patterns) As an example of the latter: the fire captain in Klein's "Sources of Power" who finds himself fighting what appears to be a small fire that is very hot and cannot be extinguished even after they douse if with water several times. He becomes alarmed and orders his crew to pull back just as the floor collapses due to a fire in the basement below. It was not a pattern he recognized (one that matched prior experience) but it was anomalous in a way that he intuited was dangerous.

shadowsun7 7y ago
I actually believe this is a distinction without a difference. If you look at Klein’s RPD model, the implicit memory operation is pattern matching against a prototype. The situation doesn’t have to be exactly the same as an old one, because the prototype provides expectancies that are really what the firemen is matching against. I’m not sure when was the last time you read Klein’s work, but he certainly does not distinguish between ‘pattern recognition’ or ‘pattern matching’ — it’s all the same implicit memory operation in his model.
kedean 7y ago
I think you can argue these are sides of the same coin. Seeing the new pattern emerge happens because you are repeatedly seeing the same event over again by searching prior experiences, it just happens that the experiences were quite recent. It's pattern matching against recent memories of trying water on the fire already and seeing that it failed each time.

shadowsun7 7y ago

I actually believe this is a distinction without a difference. If you look at Klein’s RPD model, the implicit memory operation is pattern matching against a prototype. The situation doesn’t have to be exactly the same as an old one, because the prototype provides expectancies that are really what the firemen is matching against. I’m not sure when was the last time you read Klein’s work, but he certainly does not distinguish between ‘pattern recognition’ or ‘pattern matching’ — it’s all the same implicit memory operation in his model.

kedean 7y ago

I think you can argue these are sides of the same coin. Seeing the new pattern emerge happens because you are repeatedly seeing the same event over again by searching prior experiences, it just happens that the experiences were quite recent. It's pattern matching against recent memories of trying water on the fire already and seeing that it failed each time.