The mental process of pattern recognition and artistic work

This article explores the relationship between the mind and the external world, based on the theory that the mind functions as a complex predictive mechanism oriented to recognize patterns of behaviors and relationships in natural objects and in human beings. Paradoxically, the process of pattern recognition is aimed at finding similarities and familiarities in the world, that is, at ignoring the strange or what is considered unreal; but, depending on how salient an object or event is, how rare or unreal it is perceived, it proceeds to highlight it in order to deal with it in some way. In the case of the work of art, its unreality and strangeness are perceived by the mind as an "abnormality" in the chain of expected objects and events, events that include natural logical inferences. In this rupture of the chain of regular patterns would reside a primordial aspect of the impact of the work of art.