# Pattern Recognition
**Entity class:** Concept or analytic term
## Definition
**Pattern Recognition** is the identification or classification of regularities in observations, often by comparing data with learned or explicit models.
## Relationships
**Related concepts:** [[wiki/Information Theory|Information Theory]] · [[wiki/Signal Detection|Signal Detection]] · [[wiki/World Modeling|World Modeling]] · [[wiki/Reconstructed Person|Reconstructed Person]]
**Collections:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] · [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] · [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]]
**Canonical source article:** [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]]
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