This article made me think about how many things we (as humanity and as individuals) have not experienced enough times to realize their patterns, and to start i

This article made me think about how many things we (as humanity and as individuals) have not experienced enough times to realize their patterns, and to start identifying them as things. Without being able to symbolically reason about them as things, we can't make them, we can't manipulate them, and we can't begin to understand them. The pattern-seeking brain is amazing, but also dauntingly limited. This seems to relate to the myth of Magellan's invisible ships. We probably overlook a million things in our lives just like that.