But let me give you an example about patterns and knowledge that is part of the work I have. Well, it's a wave and a particle. This much we know. Now waves are another story. I best describes waves as 'causal', vs polar.
Waves are at the other end of the light spectrum.
They are diametrically opposed to particles, light spirit is diametrically opposed to matter. It depends on what paradigm you choose to work from. Very much our patterns of knoweldge emerge from the lense we choose to wear, how we choose to see the world. But the patterns also has to operate within the limits of known laws or established perspectives. There is an infinite numbers of patterns, yet there is a finite number of 'truths' within which to parlay everything.