Mr. Hawkins thinks that the human neocortex, that part of the brain that includes the perception and reasoning functions, itself works as a kind of pattern-seeking and predictive system.
Fault diagnosis is essentially a kind of pattern recognition.
"You can think of a whole day as a kind of musical pattern".
"Phosphenes have been defined as a kind of test pattern of the visual system," said Robert Bednarik, a rock art expert in Australia.
"Now we're in a kind of holding pattern".
Consider a baseball defense, which can be thought of as a certain kind of pattern.
A plumbing fixture emerges from a bare male torso; a pair of facing staircases descend and meet in an empty room; an outsize autumn leaf sits in a chair; bare human limbs and streams of water weave together as a kind of plaidlike fabric pattern.
The artists, who spend much of the year touring, don't have time to come into the studio; they generally record new material in between shows, in mobile recording studios and hotel rooms, working with demos that producers and top-line writers make for them to use as a kind of vocal stencil pattern.
If you think of the arts as a kind of bull's-eye pattern, the center is creation, and the outer rings represent successive degrees of re-creation and enablement.
Richard Wright's breathtaking wall work, painstakingly done in gold leaf, offers itself as a kind of Rorschach blot – a pattern into which you could read anything, if only you stared long enough.
It's difficult to see the innovative foundation, but unusual external features are easy to spot, such as a kind of trellis cut into intricate patterns and painted turquoise, set against the raspberry-hued building.
