So is the pattern of the pattern of the program and our lives. The closer we come to the mystery, the intensity depth unknowability and richness of life, the more we melt into the code itself. Our existence is a recursive call of the pattern of the pattern of the code. When we relinquish the search for a pattern that our brains can grasp in symbolic notation, we experience more than contentment, we experience peace beyond all understanding, letting ourselves only be spoken, only be Known. Islands in the Clickstream is an intermittent column written by Richard Thieme exploring social and cultural dimensions of computer technology and the ultimate concerns of our lives.
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