Any sufficiently good compression algorithm is inherently also a dimensionality reduction algorithm, reducing the representation down to as few dimensions as needed. This simple fact is suggestive of an origin to a number of cognitive abilities. Out of a system which evolves only for condensed representation, the ability to discern patterns in the represented things emerges for free.

Debating it - my GitHub account is basically my name… so yah… debating the subsequent loss of anonymity