Patterns in what?

this same sensation may prime the brain to sense patterns it would otherwise miss " in mathematical equations, in language, in the world at large = this same sensation may prime the brain to sense patterns it would otherwise miss "like patterns in mathematical equations, patterns in language, and patterns in the world at large?


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An experience, in short, that violates all logic and expectation. The philosopher Soren Kierkegaard wrote that such anomalies produced a profound “sensation of the absurd,” and he wasn’t the only one who took them seriously. Freud, in an essay called “The Uncanny,” traced the sensation to a fear of death, of castration or of “something that ought to have remained hidden but has come to light.”

At best, the feeling is disorienting. At worst, it’s creepy.

Now a study suggests that, paradoxically, this same sensation may prime the brain to sense patterns it would otherwise miss " in mathematical equations, in language, in the world at large.