Ray Kurzweil too, expounds on this idea of the power of patterns:
“I describe myself as a patternist, and believe that if you put matter and energy in just the right pattern you create something that transcends it. Technology is a good example of that: you put together lenses and mechanical parts and some computers and some software in just the right combination and you create a reading machine for the blind. It's something that transcends the semblance of parts you've put together. That is the nature of technology, and it's the nature of the human brain. Biological molecules put in a certain combination create the transcending properties of human intelligence; you put notes and sounds together in just the rightcombination, and you create a Beethoven symphony or a Beatles song. So patterns have a power that transcends the parts of that pattern.”
My general thesis is that value comes from arranging things in a way that complement and fit within our biological limitations. These limitations constrain us to recognize patterns in only very specific ways, and in that very constraint lies value.
(This is an abstract statement, so one purpose of this blog is to organize information in a way that this illuminates this thesis, solidifying and fading it into view slowly over time. A wonderfully emergent expression of itself, perhaps.)
