Edit: I should read more throughly next time, we don't really seem to disagree at all. I thought I read that you said that these patterns were not interesting b

Edit: I should read more throughly next time, we don't really seem to disagree at all. I thought I read that you said that these patterns were not interesting because they are not 'perfect'. Original comment: I've always thought what seems to be the direct opposite of what you do. In the end every thing we know are incomplete internal models of external systems. E.g. We see a plant, and the image of the plant is stored in our minds, however the image of the plant is not _the_ plant, and may or may not perfectly resemble the plant. What I'm trying to say is that I think it's pretty pointless to try and find 'perfect' patterns because our own storage system/recognition engine is less than perfect and that it's more fruitful to focus on those domains in which it's easy for us to see patterns, incomplete they may be. Like this very intriguing map of prime patterns.