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mav:..our tendency to make patterns- Jackie:..a very strong tendency to make things fit into a recognizable pattern
Here I find another case of a discussion illustrating itself (self-referentially): Jackie seems to assume that her sentence is simply a re-phrasing of mav's sentence. As I see it, there is a whole ocean between the two.
make things fit into a recognizable pattern presupposes the existence of things as well as patterns, whereas making patterns presupposes only chaos (randomness). Chaos, of course, tends to be resented as frightening. This is why, I assume, the first sentence was fitted into the "recognisable pattern" of the second sentence.
I neither suppose nor have the ambition that this should be the last word on the subject.
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