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In contrast, humans also perform many tasks apparently automatically and apparently without effort. These tasks include recognition, spatial navigation, sensory-motor coordination and balance, recognition of objects, path planning, obstacle avoidance, learning from experience, selective attention, anticipation, and effective response to changing environmental conditions. These tasks are technologically rather mundane, but they appear nonetheless to be tasks that require rather sophisticated processes. For the most part, cognitive scientists have not yet developed fully effective theories of their performance and they tend to be tasks that are performed by both human and nonhuman species.
“Behind this ... situation was the assumption that thinking and pattern recognition are two distinct domains and that thinking is the more important of the two... To look at things this way is to ignore both the preeminent role of pattern discrimination in human expertise and also the background of commonsense understanding that is presupposed in everyday real-world thinking. Taking account of this background may will require pattern recognition” (Dreyfus & Dreyfus, 1988, p. 24).
