Patternism: a meta-theory of theories of everything

(A sort of "home base" for writing down, as coherently as I can, as much as possible of my ideas for a meta-theory of theories of everything, which I call "patternism" for reasons that will become apparent. Very skeletal for now.)

Perhaps best to start with the historical order of crystallisation of ideas in my own mind: in particular, with the business about "made-of disintegrates" (by analogy with Douglas R. Hofstadter's slogan "greenness disintegrates"). This could lead on to the business of "in" and "maybe in" having the meanings we get when we "take mathematics seriously". Good examples here would be:

• the stuff about "5 is in {4,5,6} and also {5,10,15,20}" etc, and what it implies when you follow it through;
• the application example about copying something to two places, where the supposedly naive and wrong statement ("it's now in two places at once") comes out as right, and the supposedly pedantic and correct statement ("there are two copies of the thing, and one has the property of being in place A and not in place B, and the other has the property of being in place B and not in place A") comes out as wrong!

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  	made-of disintegrates
  	one is left with made-of-less "pointing at"
  	far future = lightly pointed at, but asymptotically no *more* lightly
  		pointed at than a fixed cost below large numbers generally
  	"in" business => expect surprises (e.g. we *are* of course "in"
  		the Matrix and the like: just, how heavily?!)
  	"the world of your future is not the future of your world"
  		(the category diagram does not commute, in other words)
  	implications for quantum suicide, frog/bird perspective, etc.
  

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