Hello and welcome back to another Expand podcast with yours truly Elizabeth April.

Today we're talking all about patterns and how important it is to understand pattern recognition,

to understand pattern interrupt,

and to ultimately understand how patterns play a huge role in our consciousness

and our day-to-day lives.

Recently, I've really been talking a lot about meaning, what is meaning, and what is perception

in relation to the meaning that we derive. Even the word meaning in and of itself only means

anything because we have attached a definition to it.

We only know and we only perceive what we know through what we have experienced and seen before.

A great example of this is just the other night, me and my wife got into a really great conversation,

as we usually do, in the middle of a TV

show that we were watching. And so I paused the TV show and on the screen is just a jumble of

different colors and patterns and organization of pixels. But because it was a very dark scene, I just

couldn't figure out what I was looking at. And for a brief moment, I got scared. It was the weirdest

thing. I was looking at the television screen, trying to figure out what the hell I was looking at,

and I just simply could not denote a

pattern to it. I could not recognize what it was. And now it doesn't really matter what it was.

I mean, eventually when I press play again, I was so curious to see what that scene was. And it was

just a zoomed in portion of some guy's hat and partial face. And, you know, and it was just a zoomed-in portion of some guy's hat and partial face and you know but it was so

zoomed in and so dark it was some sort of documentary that i couldn't figure it out and it was so

interesting to observe the fear that was connected to the not knowing of what that thing was, what that scene was.

And I think really that's where all of our fear comes from. It's that fear of the unknown.

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