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The simple answer is no. Human understanding is more than just patterns. This would be akin to seeing the world through digital camera and thinking that everyth
by a_square_peg 5y ago
The simple answer is no. Human understanding is more than just patterns. This would be akin to seeing the world through digital camera and thinking that everything just boils down to different patterns of red, green and blue.
- ragnarok451 5y agoWhat is the complex answer then? The parent's question is salient. Using your analogy as well, you could say humans see the world through the visual spectrum and reason about the world through that, although there is certainly much more to be observed beyond that spectrum - yet that is clearly sufficient for some subset of understanding.
- srcreigh 5y agoIs ASCII sufficient for understanding a subset of Shakespeare?
- a_square_peg 5y agoThere are entire academic fields and researchers of cognitive science, linguistics and neuroscience trying to unravel this. The question seemed to be made without taking a minute to appreciate this fact.