Metapattern
Metapattern is a term coined by several authors for several concepts.
Gregory Bateson
Gregory Bateson coined the term Metapattern described by environmental scientist Tyler Volk in Metapatterns: Across Space, Time, and Mind.[1] Metapatterns are, loosely, patterns of patterns. In other words, a pattern so wide-flung that it appears throughout the spectrum of reality: in clouds, rivers, and planets; in cells, organisms, and ecosystems; in art and architecture, and politics. They are functional universals for forms in space, processes in time, and concepts in mind. Volk describes ten such patterns: Spheres, Sheets/Tubes, Borders, Binaries, Centers, Layers, Calendars, Arrows, Breaks, and Cycles.
Gregory Bateson more explicitly discussed this in Mind And Nature (1972) "My central thesis can now be approached 10 words: The pattern which connects is a metapattern. It is a pattern of patterns . It is that metapattern which defines the vast generalization that , indeed , it is patterns which connect." Bateson, Gregory (1972). Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity (Advances in Systems Theory, Complexity, and the Human Sciences).
Pieter Wisse
The Dutch computer scientist Pieter Wisse proposed a method called Metapattern for conceptual modeling: with Metapattern you should be able to include context and time. The method is described in his book Metapattern context and time in information models and other papers.
References
External links
- Pieter Wisse: Metapattern Primer