[astrobe_]

Indeed the brain is pretty good at this, so much so that it is annoying when you are trying to generate a variety of textures by combining a small set of textures. This of course extends to audio patterns, temporal event patterns (e.g. post hoc, ergo propter hoc) etc.

That may be the cornerstone of "intelligence", but that's only one part of it. I think another one is making or finding relations between the parts of the whole.

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations [1]

Once you have internalized relations of the real world, you can start to hack them in your head, run simulations of the results and take action.

[1] https://www.thoughtco.com/famous-education-quotations-herber...