Recognizing and recording patterns is the key to daily survival, and may also be seen as the origin of scientific, philosophical, and artistic developments. A recurring relationship once established among several elements of our world acquires meaning in memory as a pattern. This relationship can then be recorded or codified into a scientific result. It thus becomes part of collective human knowledge, just as our artifacts may be said to codify our collective material culture. The pattern can guide our behavior, or the production of artifacts. The same act of recognizing recurring relations among elements of our world anchors our relations with it, by enabling us to describe, explain, and know it, and thereby act and transform its physical aspects. Certain “patterns” represent informational entities in our minds. These serve to connect (1) the world’s organization, (2) the organization of our knowledge, our artifacts and cultural expressions, and (3) the organization of our interactions with the world.