[MD] now it comes

[Krimel]

[Marsha]
I visualize a pattern of value like a galaxy, where the most commonly 
shared aspect of a pattern are clustered more densely in the middle, 
while the less commonly held aspects of the pattern, for whatever 
reason, are on the peripheral.  

[Krimel]
Sort of, although I would phrase it differently. I recently claimed, with
this sort of thing in mind, that a "better" set of metaphysical "levels"
would be trunk, limb, branch, leaf. That is how patterns form in the "real"
world and in our conceptions of it. That in fact is how all of our thoughts
and feelings are encoded in the fractal structure of our nervous systems. It
is all areas of dense flow surrounded by fractual streams and branches.

Case once put it this way:

Strokes of lightning slash the skies
In their flash the darkness dies
The fractured lines of time and fate
Inscribe the shape of love and hate.

A coin in spin...
Head chasing tails
To see that other side...
It fails.

When things don't cleave, they shatter
All the pieces scatter
Distinctions that should matter
Blend in gray

Facets twitch and twinkle
Perspective shifts in every wrinkle
Edges that define dissolve upon a touch.
In or out's the question.
Does it matter much?

Each tick
Each tock
All rhythms
Mock

Such things don't cleave, they shatter
All the pieces scatter.
Distinctions that should matter turn to gray.
 
And yet, in every spot of gray
We see that white and black still play.