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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]
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 ...
The Human Face is a 4-part BBC series that examines the science behind facial beauty, expression, and fame. Actor and comedian John Cleese investigated identity, perception, creativity and sexuality and their relation to the human face, combining art, technology and human interest stories. Paul Ekman served as scientific adviser.
In the United States, the first edition of God the Archetype (Original) Pattern of the Universe has passed out of copyright and is in the public domain. However, this is not the case for Elohim the Archetype (Original) Pattern of the Universe. The second and subsequent editions copyright are held by the Institute of Divine Metaphysical Research.
Watch the "yelling" from the feature demons. Each cognitive demon is responsible for a specific pattern (e.g., a letter in the alphabet). The "yelling" of the cognitive demons is based on how much of their pattern was detected by the feature demons. The more features the cognitive demons find that correspond to their pattern, the louder they ...
Patternmaster (1976) is a science fiction novel by American author Octavia E. Butler. Patternmaster, the first book to be published but the last in the series' internal chronology, depicts a distant future where the human race has been sharply divided into the dominant Patternists, their enemies the "diseased" and animalistic Clayarks, and the enslaved human mutes.
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.