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is the fundamental competent of the human brain? Psychologically, not physically. Physically its nuerons. Psychologically though…I think its pattern recognition. The fact of the matter is the human brain has INSANE pattern recognition. Think abiout this. If you had not seen someone for say…five years. And they had a new haircut. And different clothes. And had slimmed up.

If you saw this person walkign down the street, there is still a very large chance for your brain to go “DING” and have you recognize this person. Our brains can see a face, analyze it, run it through every single face that we remember, and then add mutations in to face in memory that most closely matches the face we see, until we get a match.

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THIS IS INSANE! Programming something like that…its ridiculous. The algorithm itself isnt that bad, but the speed at which our brains do this is incredible.

The fact of the matter is, at the basis of all knowledge and skill is pattern recognition. We start with something hardwired in our brains. The basic idea of pattern recognition. From there we apply it in different ways. An athlete learns the combination of muscles to move to perform an action perfectly. A writer learns the tropes and tricks to literature and applies them as they see fit.

The great thing abotu all this, is the ability to mutate patterns in our heads. An athlete isnt any good, unless they can adapt. Unless they can use induction to create a hypothetical simulation in their heads of a new thing they want to try.

Basically induction is the idea of, “If i can prove somehting works on the first step, then prove it for all other possible steps, then it is true”

This is very powerful. In mathematics its used to proved lots of equations, but the interesting thing is the way that we apply this in real life. In math, its all about using the proof through induction linearly. Like a set of stairs. If you can get up onto the first step, then from there go to the second step, theoretically you should be able to climb a stair of any length. BUT in real life, things are linear. You have your first step yes, but after that, instead of having a second step, you have multiple situations in which the idea can be applicable. Your brain is capable of simulating mutations on the first step to have it fit into one of the othe multiple variations. This is amazing because this is something that has just started being used in programming and engineering. Basically, to make a program that does this, you need a goal, an ability to mutate, and a way to compare mutations with your goal.

So lets say you want to make an ideal propeller(or as close as you can get to an ideal propeller). First you need the thigns that make a good propeller. From there you can randomly generate say…ten different propeller ideas. Each of these propellers are different from one another and have differeing attributes. From there you compare the random propellers to the ideal propeller, rank them in closeness, and then keep the three highest rank, fill the seven new open slots with more randomly generated propellers. Then do it over and over and over and over again till you have something that looks (reletively) like your ideal propeller.

Our brains can do this. Very fast.

sooo…

I lost my train of thought.

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Ask questions please. Im really interested in stuff like this, and love tlaking about it with anyone.

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