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.
“Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.”
“The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.”