
&gt; 
&gt; Life began with pattern recognition.

And here I thought it was pattern replication ...
I am sure there is a connection somwhere, but ...
what?

Pattern recognition was the problem that first piqued my interest in AI --
excuse me while I wax nostalgic -- Minsky &amp; Papert made me believe that
it could be done right, if a bit harder than anyone had guessed --
I was shocked to find out twenty years later they had gotten
the blame for killing the angels, when all this time I had
believed that the