The Journal for Patterns Recognised

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The paragraph below is embedded with MANY speculative assumptions, betraying 
a bias right up front.  Consider the following phrases from below:

"distorted pattern recognition"
"pattern recognition gone wrong"

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>From: "Monroe, Dave" <monroe at mpm.edu>
>
>The Journal for Patterns Recognised
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>The Journal for Patterns Recognised is a new journal dedicated to the study 
>of distorted pattern recognition. We can recognise sheep in clouds, faces 
>in 4 well-placed rocks and a tree in a mathematically produced set of 
>lines. This ability to recognise familiar objects in formlessness is said 
>to be the engine behind imagination. Therefore we understand pattern 
>recognition gone wrong as the well from which human culture, roughly 
>defined as the framework of socially accepted interpretations of the real, 
>flows. Small wonder that in the long history of research into speculative 
>modes of knowledge practised by writers, artists and revolutionaries of all 
>sorts, methods for experimental pattern recognition have always been 
>important (i.e. cut-ups, scrying, generative walks, hallucinatory 
>substances). The Journal for Patterns Recognised seeks to widen the 
>understanding of these methodologies. Only in our own time, the fundamental 
>importance of pattern recognition for cognition has come into full view, 
>consequently we can only now place the phenomena centre-stage in the 
>history of counterculture.

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