Patterns
Cause and effect
Gravity (attraction)
Repetition
Sequence (ordered dependency)
Essentially these patterns are like The primitives laid out in information Dynamics just different. So mimicry now becomes a pattern rather than a an informational primitive. Maybe that actually frames it a bit more parsimoniously
But what are the patterns?
What is pi and the golden ratio? What are these things and how do? What do we call them? We can call them whatever we want as long as we understand what we're talking about and define our terms so says Aristotle