[avmich]

Roughly speaking, the job of a medical doctor is to diagnose the patient - and then, after the diagnosis is made, to apply the healing from the book, corresponding to the diagnosis.

The diagnosis is pattern matching (again, roughly). It kinda suggests that a lot of "intelligent" problems are focused on pattern matching, and (relatively straightforward) application of "previous experience". So, pattern matching can bring us a great deal towards AGI.

[AnimalMuppet]

Pattern matching is instinct. (Or at least, instinct is a kind of pattern matching. And once you learn the patterns, pattern matching can become almost instinctual). And that's fine, for things that fit the pattern. But a human-level intelligence can also deal with problems for which there is no pattern. (I mean, not always successfully - finding a correct solution to a novel problem is difficult. But it is within the capability of at least some humans.)