Patterns

Three places to look for a pattern. In each, three pictures: one where the pattern is there, one where it isn't, one where you can't tell.

• The pattern-finding mindWhy a brain sees faces in clouds, and why that is not a mistake.
• Where patterns liveIn the world, in the mind, or in the data between them.
• Pattern-finders that are not aliveWhat a machine is doing when it finds something, and whether it wanted to.

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