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Re:Poll: Do you meditate? by joelthelion on Monday March 25, 2013 @02:28PM (#5438700)
Since when is "pattern-matching" a legitimate reasoning technique? It can sure be used to raise a flag, but excluding something completely on this basis is pretty stupid.
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Re:Poll: Do you meditate? by georgeorwell on Wednesday March 27, 2013 @05:28AM (#5448496)
Cognition is layer upon layer of pattern processing, all the way down to sensory inputs. His particular pattern matching mechanism might need adjustment, but pattern matching itself is the only mechanism by which we decide anything. If you doubt me, ask yourself, do these sentences pattern match to "correct" or "incorrect"? See?
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