While the reviewer is mostly correct in their objections, probably, I have to disagree that "red" or "the smell of a rose" are not patterns. The brain perceive

While the reviewer is mostly correct in their objections, probably, I have to disagree that "red" or "the smell of a rose" are not patterns. The brain perceives by receiving electrical signals from neurons, whether from the optic nerve (which, incidentally, encodes both colour and geometry) or the nerves from the nasal cells. These are going to arrive in the brain as identical chemical 1s and 0s for the brain's sensory pattern recognition circuits to deal with (or whatever.) Independent thought, recursive concept matching (smell -> memory of childhood, memory of childhood -> fear, adrenal response) and all the rest are a strong point of the criticism, though, since these are obviously not based on pattern recognition.