Pattern

A pattern is a form that repeats, and that an agent can identify, in infinite change. Patterns are the bridge between raw flux and all the things that agents can observe, name, or use. Physical laws, constants, structures, and agents are patterns that continue, because their form is self-reinforcing in the flow of transformation. A pattern is not change. A pattern is the shape of change when change repeats. Patterns can emerge, become stable, evolve, or dissolve. No pattern is permanent, but some continue sufficiently long that agents think that they are set, in a given context.