From: Aaron Philby
Hi. I recently found your webpage about how the brain thinks. I have a
question I've been thinking about a lot recently and talking about
with friends. "Pattern recognition" is not considered a sense in the
the same way that sight, smell, taste, touch, and hear are considered
senses. What is the reason that "Pattern recognition" itself, is not a
sense? I know that we can recognize more complex patterns as we learn
and grow and what have you, which is different from how our vision and
hearing and the other senses get duller over time, but apart from
this, how is "pattern recognition" not just a sense that we have that
examines data that comes into our brain via the other senses? Thanks
for your time
Aaron
Aaron,
I would say the word "sense" normally implies that some condition
outside
the nervous system is being turned into nerve impulses that can
be processed
by the brain. Pattern recognition uses nerve impulses to compute
other
impulses, so it's happening totally inside the nervous system.
Bob
cool! Wow. thank you so much for the response (: That helps a lot.
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