the way we talk about "pattern recognition" constructs it as a passive activity: we react to the pattern by noticing it when we see it this is catastrophically wrong the fundamental act is pattern *generation*, inductive construction of novel patterns to apply to the world
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the pattern in the territory and the pattern in the map are different kinds of thing of course but they're both things that exist
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Okay, I think I'm with you.
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