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Pattern Recognition is a novel by science fiction writer William Gibson published in 2003. Set in August and September 2002, the story follows Cayce Pollard , a 32-year-old marketing consultant who has a psychological sensitivity to corporate symbols.
Aged 32 during the events of Pattern Recognition, Cayce lives in New York City.Though named by her parents after Edgar Cayce, she pronounces her given name "Case". [4] She is a freelance marketing consultant, a coolhunter with an unusual intuitive sensitivity for branding, [5] manifested primarily in her physical aversion to particular logos and corporate mascots. [6]
Missing comma after Pattern Recognition. I would drop "had" and make it "beginning in 1977". "Pattern Recognition was written between 2001 and 2002 while Gibson was living in Vancouver, British Columbia, and released in February 2003." Don't use commas to separate clauses that don't stand on their own. Check over the whole article for these ...
Spook Country is a 2007 novel by speculative fiction author William Gibson.A political thriller set in contemporary North America, it followed on from the author's previous novel, Pattern Recognition (2003), and was succeeded in 2010 by Zero History, which featured much of the same core cast of characters.
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Critics felt the subtitle of the book, The Secret of Human Thought Revealed, overpromises. Some protested that pattern recognition does not explain the "depth and nuance" [3] of mind including elements like emotion and imagination. Others felt Kurzweil's ideas might be right, but they are not original, pointing to existing work as far back as ...
In psychology and cognitive neuroscience, pattern recognition is a cognitive process that matches information from a stimulus with information retrieved from memory. [1]Pattern recognition occurs when information from the environment is received and entered into short-term memory, causing automatic activation of a specific content of long-term memory.
Physiognomy as it is understood today is a subject of renewed scientific interest, especially as it relates to machine learning and facial recognition technology. [6] [7] [8] The main interest for scientists today are the risks, including privacy concerns, of physiognomy in the context of facial recognition algorithms.