[MD] Why are things called patterns?

[craigerb at comcast.net]

[Marsha]
> can anything at all be apprehended apart from one's complex of cognitive processes?
> Not a universe, not billions-of-years, not humans, and not advanced civilizations.

Try going in the opposite direction.
Can iron filings apprehend a magnet & arrange themselves in a pattern?
Can a mother mouse apprehend the cry of her joey?
Craig