# Pattern Recognition Systems > **Machine-Evolution Nexus:** [[articles/Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution|Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution]] distinguishes learned recognition from hereditary population evolution. ## Definition **Pattern recognition systems** identify, classify or predict structure in data using statistical, symbolic or learned representations. ## Evidence Boundary Recognition performance can demonstrate competence while remaining independent of self-replication, Darwinian evolution, consciousness and moral standing. ## Relationships [[wiki/Artificial Intelligence|Artificial Intelligence]], [[wiki/Machine Learning|Machine Learning]], [[wiki/Training Data|Training Data]], [[wiki/Scientific Inference|Scientific Inference]]