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"The Wright brothers drew on bicycle mechanics to solve flight control."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 14: AGI & THE SYNTHESIZER Are We Pattern Matchers?

Source title A Century of Flight - Taking Wing

Source authors Andrew Curry

Source year 2003

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Web Page

"Where pattern matchers use deductive rules or inductive generalization, humans excel at these kinds of abductions, forming an explanatory hypothesis to account for a surprising observation."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 14: AGI & THE SYNTHESIZER Are We Pattern Matchers?

Source title Abduction

Source authors Igor Douven

Source year 2025

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"When we pair our records with causal inference and episodic foresight, we can imagine solutions before the problem has even arrived."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 14: AGI & THE SYNTHESIZER Are We Pattern Matchers?

Source title Episodic Future Thinking: Mechanisms and Functions

Source authors Daniel L. Schacter, Roland G. Benoit, Karl K. Szpunar

Source year 2017

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Book / Offline paper

"We use math and language to consciously organize our thoughts, and thanks to our capacity for causal inference and episodic foresight, we can imagine infinite solutions to the problems we face."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 14: AGI & THE SYNTHESIZER Are We Pattern Matchers?

Source title If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal

Source authors Justin Gregg

Source year 2022

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"Metacognition is an ability to think about thinking, and to know when we don’t know something."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 14: AGI & THE SYNTHESIZER Are We Pattern Matchers?

Source title Towards an integrative neuroscience of metacognition

Source authors Stephen M. Fleming

Source year 2026

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"Many bats reconstruct space from ultrasonic echoes that humans cannot hear."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 14: AGI & THE SYNTHESIZER Are We Pattern Matchers?

Source title Echolocation

Source authors U.S. National Park Service

Source year 2024

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Online paper / PDF

"Dogs inhabit an olfactory world we barely perceive."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 14: AGI & THE SYNTHESIZER Are We Pattern Matchers?

Source title Canine Olfaction: Physiology, Behavior, and Possibilities for Practical Applications

Source authors Agata Kokocińska-Kusiak, Martyna Woszczyło, Mikołaj Zybala, Julia Maciocha, Katarzyna Barłowska, Michał Dzięcioł

Source year 2021

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Online paper / PDF

"Clark’s nutcrackers remember thousands of food caches."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 14: AGI & THE SYNTHESIZER Are We Pattern Matchers?

Source title Clark's nutcracker spatial memory: The importance of large, structural cues

Source authors Peter A. Bednekoff, Russell P. Balda

Source year 2014

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Web Page

"A human learner driver can become functional after a few dozen hours behind the wheel, drawing on an existing model of how the world works."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 14: AGI & THE SYNTHESIZER Are We Pattern Matchers?

Source title Yann LeCun on a vision to make AI systems learn and reason like animals and humans

Source authors Meta AI

Source year 2022

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"When you encounter a familiar object, like a broken ladder, you can run an internal model to simulate its likely physical consequences."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 14: AGI & THE SYNTHESIZER Are We Pattern Matchers?

Source title Simulation as an engine of physical scene understanding

Source authors Peter W. Battaglia, Jessica B. Hamrick, Joshua B. Tenenbaum

Source year 2013

Confidence high

Importance high