When we talk about "patterns" we are not just talking about visual patterns of course. For example, someone might say that he is looking for a pattern in the behavior (of some animal or person or some group.) In this case it should be obvious that they are talking about a pattern that can be ABSTRACTED from the observations. There does sound like an emphasis of a repeated pattern but since the variations that might be tolerated could be so extensive they are not talking about a repeated pattern that has to be directly abstracted from superficial observation but rather a repeated behavior that was abstracted from an insight that was derived from some superficial observation. This leaves that door wide open. In fact, when someone who is crazy begins seeing patterns his patterns may not even be tied to any regularity that can be concrete. An example of that is of John Nash's discovery of vast amounts of secret codes in the newspaper as depicted in a Beautiful Mind. So, just as a person might have the sense that a diverse kind of stone work does not constitute a pattern another person could find a vast range of patterns in the stone work. The question for us is whether this kind of method could be used to reliably recognize a particular input or a kind of input or a range on kinds of input.
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