The reading is interesting and it provides the author’s insights on how the mind recognizes patterns and processes them. It reminded me of something that I have came across in my life. In China there is a website which is very similar to Reddit. It has a section full of questions that sound ridiculous and people find amusing. For example, “The prision is full of criminals, why don’t the cops go there to capture them?””Why does meteorites always fall in meteorite pits?” After reading this chapter, I think the reason I find these questions ridiculous is because I am thinking with a preset pattern, and these questions violates some pieces of the pattern. But on the other hand, the people who came up with these questions managed to hop out of these patterns and rearrange them, making them kind of make sense but absurd if you really think about it. Even though the people.in the community call themselves “The mentally retarded”, I believe the questions are kind of genius in terms of creativity.