In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other patterns: the larger patterns in which it is embedded, the patterns of the same size that surround it, and the smaller patterns which are embedded in it.
I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it I thought it would be me.
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

