[PeterisP]

One can argue that the parts of our brain that make us intelligent, the prefrontal cortex that is so much bigger than in "lesser" animals, is essentially an overgrown, glorified pattern matching engine. Pattern matching is the one thing our brains are good for - there's good reason to suppose that quite many intelligence-related tasks can be reduced to a form of pattern matching.

[jcoffland]

One could argue a lot of things. Humans once argued quite seriously that the human brain was composed of microscopic gears because that was the technology of the time.