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Correction: humans are overzealous pattern-matching engines.

• jlgreco 14y ago
  Eh, we have other things as well. Meat for one. ;) Maybe you could say that we are meaty pattern matching engines.
  • jrajav 14y ago
    Who said computers couldn't be made out of meat?
    • jlgreco 14y ago
      I'd say we are proof that they can be. ;) Saying that humans are pattern matching engines seems equivalent to saying VW Bugs are internal combustion engines to me though.
      • JonnieCache 14y ago
        I meant the "essence" of humanity, as in "what separates us from the animals." That is what it means to be uniquely human: to match patterns, overzealously.
        • technolem 14y ago
          Most animals are pattern matchers. Overzealous ones at that. Our specialty is abstraction and formal logic.
    • js2 14y ago
      How could you make that comment and not link to http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html
    • shangaslammi 14y ago
      You mean like http://techland.time.com/2012/04/18/crab-computing-the-future-of-computers-powered-by-crabs-wait-what/ http://techland.time.com/2012/04/18/crab-computing-the-futur...