Pattern Seeking Animal
Phillip Savin – J:2 – Is Man a Pattern-seeking Animal?
Since the beginning of every person’s life, their mind is designed to seek out patterns. We all do this, most of the time not even realizing what we’re doing. From culture to culture, humans are constantly displaying, discovering, and seeking out many different patterns, which end up being the very basis of life as a homosapien.
Music is one example of these patterns which most humankind seeks out as a way to express themselves in this universe. Technically, this art form is merely a series of varied sound waves and frequencies. When played separately, these tones may not mean much, however if you decide to put them together in some type of pattern, a melody is formed from the different sounds and music is created. Music is and has been a very meaningful, well-known, and greatly loved pattern that varies from culture to culture throughout the ages of man.
Another example of meaningful patterns to mankind is the art of language. Language has helped mankind communicate with each other for many thousands of years, has helped us evolve into the society we are today, and has been quite a useful tool in setting us apart from all the other species of animals on this world. This is a pattern we notice even from the time we are growing inside our mother’s belly. Then, after observing and listening to other people do this for a while, we start to develop our own speech, simply through a pattern of mouth movements and vocalization. Likewise, the written language is simply a series of characters we have developed to represent these sound patterns which make up our language. When put together in a meaningful pattern we can write a story, in which one can suspend their disbelief and enter another world entirely, simply by recognizing these letter patterns as words and reading the story.
In history, there are many patterns which have been prominent throughout different societies, and which also tend to repeat themselves quite
Since the beginning of every person’s life, their mind is designed to seek out patterns. We all do this, most of the time not even realizing what we’re doing. From culture to culture, humans are constantly displaying, discovering, and seeking out many different patterns, which end up being the very basis of life as a homosapien.
Music is one example of these patterns which most humankind seeks out as a way to express themselves in this universe. Technically, this art form is merely a series of varied sound waves and frequencies. When played separately, these tones may not mean much, however if you decide to put them together in some type of pattern, a melody is formed from the different sounds and music is created. Music is and has been a very meaningful, well-known, and greatly loved pattern that varies from culture to culture throughout the ages of man.
Another example of meaningful patterns to mankind is the art of language. Language has helped mankind communicate with each other for many thousands of years, has helped us evolve into the society we are today, and has been quite a useful tool in setting us apart from all the other species of animals on this world. This is a pattern we notice even from the time we are growing inside our mother’s belly. Then, after observing and listening to other people do this for a while, we start to develop our own speech, simply through a pattern of mouth movements and vocalization. Likewise, the written language is simply a series of characters we have developed to represent these sound patterns which make up our language. When put together in a meaningful pattern we can write a story, in which one can suspend their disbelief and enter another world entirely, simply by recognizing these letter patterns as words and reading the story.
In history, there are many patterns which have been prominent throughout different societies, and which also tend to repeat themselves quite