Patterns can be seen as active agents in the sense-making process.

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• Memories, as patterns in the excitable medium of cognitive systems, could be seen as active agents in the sense-making processhypothesis0.856
• Patterns capture knowledge beyond the individual.claim0.815
  Why technologists love Alexander; patterns as mechanism for sharing and reusing design knowledge.
• The mere list of centers in a pattern language, just from their naming, already conveys a profound atmosphere and defines the life of the place to an enormous degreeclaim0.793
  Demonstrated via the Samarkand pattern language list which immediately evokes magical atmosphere
• The sense-making process of memory interpretation is creative as much as it is driven by information processing.claim0.784
  Emphasis on creativity in reconstruction of memory.
• it creates a ‘we’; what we are doing, for example, whether our behaviours are coordinated or not, becomes a relevant variable.quote0.780
  Illustrates how non-separable functions shift identity to the collective level.
• Model attention patterns can map to and reveal something about contemplative and flow states.claim0.780
• A pattern language will work well only to the extent that it embraces a whole — comprising everything needed for a complete building of that type — so that its patterns work together as a coherent systemhypothesis0.779
  Condition for success of an artificial pattern language stated in section 3
• In assembling the pattern, it is necessary from time to time, to examine the state of the pattern many atoms away, if one is to be sure of not making a serious error when putting the pieces together.quote0.779
  Penrose's statement about quasicrystal assembly, used as evidence that non-local action is required in natural morphogenesis