While seeing patterns that aren't there as in the Rorschach test can seem innocuous, upon closer inspection it may provide us with a hint of how the left brain created our sense of self—by seeing a pattern that isn't there. In other words, perhaps our pattern-perceiving machine looks within and finds a single point of perception, remembers a series of likes and dislikes, judgments, beliefs, etc., and creates the pattern of “me.”
