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Sorry for being dense but what is 'high aesthetic discernment' precisely differing from 'precise pattern matching'? Maybe I can't pattern match that to anything I posses - despite being quite good at pattern matching and other IQ-measured tasks (except spatial). I can appreciate elegance and beauty in mathematical proofs. I also hugely enjoyed Hofstadters GEB. But apparently something is amiss here. What?