Editing Pattern (section)

=== Real patterns<!--'Real patterns' redirects here--> ===
[[Daniel Dennett]]'s notion of '''real patterns'''<!--boldface per WP:R#PLA-->, discussed in his 1991 paper of the same name,<ref>Dennett, D. C. (1991). Real Patterns. ''The Journal of Philosophy'' '''88'''(1), 27–51.</ref> provides an ontological framework aiming to discern the reality of patterns beyond mere human interpretation, by examining their predictive utility and the efficiency they provide in compressing information. For example, [[Center of mass|centre of gravity]] is a real pattern because it allows the prediction of the movements of a bodies such as the earth around the sun, and it compresses all the information about all the particles in the sun and the earth that allows scientists to make those predictions.