Patterns and the Brain (Lesson 480)
On the last pages, author told us the new concept that the human brain is a pattern recognizing machine. In fact, human’s brain is complex, the most good instruments couldn’t copy it all for many years. Even the most advanced computers can only imitate its some functions. Well, human’s brain is amazing! As the author says, human’s brain is taking in information and scanning it for patterns, then it identifies and highlights the important ones, become the something into conscious awareness. This process is magically that most of time you’re unconscious. You seem to have a natural ability to recognize patterns.

Next, let me talk about my experience about pattern recognition device – brain. I like sunrise. Because I lived in a coastal city. Sometimes I would drive the car go to the seaside to look at the sunrise with my friend. Sunrise is not something you can see everyday. There are many factors to consider when it comes to see a beautiful sunrise. At first, the sunrise time, it’s more important, or you would miss a sunrise just you were mistake the rise time of sun. Second, was there some dark clouds in the sky that day? You know, and this is again due to the coastal city, typhoons often pass through here now. When I write this essay, I’m going througn the heavy rain as the typhoon – meihua. As soon as the typhoon came, not to mention the sun, not even a bad weather. Of course, in my experience, it’s hard to see sunrise in cloudy weather too. Believe me, it’s important to look at the weather report before you go to the seaside. Third, we would plan which path we would take that day. The good path would save your energy and time.

In the process, my brain would collect and analyze imformations about sunrise, it would judge the possibility that I can see the sunrise if I go to the seaside. I think the whole process, it’s means “perceive patterns”. Although it’s a little bit complicated to write it down, it’s quick and effective in fact. I always natrually consider the factors about sunrise time, weather, time spend on the road.

Back to the language learning, how do we use it to learning? I think we should increase the chances to perceive patterns. in the words, whether you can undertand your learning language or not, you should join the environment of this language. If you can undertand a lot of meaning, it’s sure good. But if you don’t undertand the meaning in this enviroment, you should maybe bear the situation for a while, because your brain will scaning new information from the new language environment. You should give some time to your brain. So what you need to do is believe your brain and continue to create more oppotunities for the language enviroment.