The human race has a idiosyncrasy of wanting to possess an answer to every question it is confronted with, and has efficiently structured and organized stimuli for millennia of our existence. Consequently, the perceived “pattern” is an important aspect of human experience, and patterns are recognized almost instantly by the brain. We even recognize them when they are not an accurate representation of the direct objects of experience, for example recognizing a human face in the contour of a tree trunk outside. But what can be defined as a pattern?, and if we can never reach a purely objective agreement on pattern defining criteria, is there any remaining argument for patterns’ existence outside of human perception? Attempts at finding patterns and justifying them through theoretical and experimental observation have been at the core of many human efforts thus far in our timeline of existence. This pattern seeking behavior has continually been relevant in the Human Sciences, specifically philosophy, and the Natural Sciences.
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In the area of Philosophy, semantic patterns are recognized through the various ways of knowing and used to put forward theories about the fundamentals of existence and consciousness, while in more practical areas of study such as Climatology and the natural sciences, patterns are bodies of information achieved through experimentation that can organize the natural world. Patterns help us to make sense of the various stimuli that we are presented with in daily experience, and if we can recognize them, we are generally better equipped with intellectual prowess to interact and
Is there a pattern for life? Maybe not, but in Ernest Hemingway’s short story “A Soldier’s Home”, the main character Harold Krebs finds that he needs to live his life through a series of patterns. In this story, the series of patterns associated to Krebs results in an explanation of his character’s desire for an uncomplicated life. The series of patterns can be found through Krebs’s involvement in college, the Marines, and even in his personal relationships.
Levine states that children have two ways in which they organize the information they receive from the world around them. He refers to these methods as sequential ordering and spatial ordering. He defines spatial patterns as, “assembled parts that occupy space and settle on the doorsteps of our minds all at once” (Levine, p.151). Many examples are given of when spatial ordering is prevalent, for instance, when a student draws a map or recognizes the features of a person’s face. Levine defines sequential patterns as information gaining “admission to the minds one bit at a time and in an order that’s meant not to be missed” (Levine, p.151). He says that sequential ordering is used when students try to master a science project or learn a telephone number. Neurologically, Levine states that sequential ordering is carried out on the left side of the brain and spatial ordering is carried out on the right side of the brain. He also makes references to the possibility of childr...
Kohls, C. and Panke, S. (2009) “Is that true…? Thoughts on the epistemology of patterns”. In Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs, 16, Chicago.
A significant reason we so easily believe in myths is because of our brain’s predisposition to make things simpler. Our hectic lives distract us from distinguishing what is meaningful and what is not. This allows our minds to “trick” us into thinking something with absolutely no meaning at all has all of the meaning in the world. This is called patternicity and most likely comes from an evolutionarily, adaptive tendency. An example would be if someone was to eat a specific food and then get sick soon after. They would relate the sickness to that food and avoid it for some time. It doesn’t matter if the food was the actual cause of sickness or if it was just a coincidence. This comes from Pavlov’s Classical Conditioning and is called stimulus generalization.
In order to make sense of the ambiguous and complicated world we live in we need a way in which to perceive phenomena. For any given event there could be numerous causes, and instinctively we choose the cause of most significance. These causes are generally ones that represents a humanlike agent. As these agents are not always easy to detect - we often assume there is a humanlike agent behind phenomena regardless of whether we can identify their presence. He notes that Wegner and Mar and Marcae propose we are inclined to see agency even in things such a geometric figures or 'abstract non living
Jackson, J. P., Clements, P. T., Averill, J. B., & Zimbro, K. (2009). Patterns of knowing:
In response, they proposed that perception is based on the organization of stimuli into holistic and meaningful forms. They are well-known for the phrase "the whole is different than the sum of its parts. " They proposed several "laws" (really heuristics or "rules of thumb") that are referred to as the Gestalt laws of perceptual organization. These are discussed in the module later on.
The cognitive revolution represents a diametric turn around in the century’s old treatment of mind and consciousness in science, such as the contents of conscious experience, whose subjective qualities were being discarded as mere causal epiphenomena (Sperry 1993). This paradigm shift brought with it alternative beliefs about the ultimate nature of things thereby bringing forth new answers to some of humanities deepest questions. The key assumption of cognitivism is that people have different mental states each of which can lead to a different response. The manipulation of these different states can be described in terms of algorithms all of which has become the defining paradigm of psychology (Sperry 1993)
The third Pattern of Knowing is aesthetic. Having an Aesthetic pattern of knowing means that you have
Perception is defined as the awareness of the world through the use of the five senses, but the concept of perception is often used to isolate one person’s point of view, so how reliable can perception be if no one person’s is exactly the same? The word perception itself is riddled with different, well, perceptions of its meaning. When some hear the word, they might automatically think of it as something innately flawed, that can easily be fooled by illusions, while others may think of its usefulness when avoiding scalding a hand on a hot stove. I am here to agree with both and to argue that perception is something necessary and helpful, and something that should be scrutinized for its flaws. By looking at perception as a way of knowing in the context of memory and human sciences, it can be concluded that perception can contribute to the acquisition of knowledge by constructing a foundation on which incoming stimuli from the environment are able to be quickly interpreted and acted upon, but perception can also hinder the acquisition of knowledge by wrongly interpreting those stimuli, causing inappropriate reactions.
In short, they argue that any proposed cognitive model must guarantee systematicity. Additionally, they argue that for a model to guarantee systematicity, it must have combinatorial syntax and semantics where complex representations are comprised of simpler constituents. If the connectionist model has this syntactically structured representation, it may be able to exhibit systematicity. However, being syntactically structured would make it merely an implementation model of LOT. If the connectionist model is not syntactically structured, then it cannot guarantee systematicity and must be scientifically inadequate.
According to (Mezirow, Jack, 1987, pg. 214). We form habits and categories these events, as ‘Meaning Schemes’, like rules to our life. ‘Meaning perspectives’, draws our attention to our assumptions from our experiences and habits. The habits are used to form an interpretation of our expectation thought our ideas and our mind
There are many different Visual Perception principles in perception. The main principles are Gestalt. Gestalt is a German word meaning 'form' or 'shape'. Gestalt psychologists formulated a series of principles that describe how t...
The Nature of Mathematics Mathematics relies on both logic and creativity, and it is pursued both for a variety of practical purposes and for its basic interest. The essence of mathematics lies in its beauty and its intellectual challenge. This essay is divided into three sections, which are patterns and relationships, mathematics, science and technology and mathematical inquiry. Firstly, Mathematics is the science of patterns and relationships. As a theoretical order, mathematics explores the possible relationships among abstractions without concern for whether those abstractions have counterparts in the real world.
Context is defined as that the way we interpret a part of the pattern is depended on the rest of the pattern. During our process of interpretation, isolated parts that affect our interpretation the most (known as "clues") guide us in selecting the right schemata to interpret this specific pattern; and when we find the right schemata, the rest of the pattern becomes the "context" or "background.