One narrative of "the world" is matter is undifferentiated substance until pattern comes along. For example there is a classical world concept that nothing happens until "the plan" comes along. A theme in creation myths is there's a differentiation between sky and earth, for example. In the jew myths, there's a statement cribbed from greek philosophers: in the beginning was the word and the word was god, that is "the pattern" god.
One of the greek concepts elaborated by Plato in several of the plays starring the Socrates character is there's a realm of forms and ideas. The forms and ideas can "materialize" via human work. There's an example of the "ideal chair" that becomes a real chair, and the real chair is always imperfect. The idea realm is a real place, and concepts like mathematics have an independent origin that precedes everything else.
There's a comedic split in greek philosophical opinion on this subject in the apocryphal story of Plato's Chicken.
Interestingly, the first line of the Dao de Ching is: "The Way that can be spoken of is not the eternal Way." I think it's essentially the same idea as the Socrates character saying, "I know that I know nothing." Human symbolic and verbal reasoning is inherently limited. The "truth" of the world can't be expressed in words or symbols. This is what the joke of Plato's chicken is about. The joke is a different version of a zen koan like "what is the sound of one hand clapping?"
The "false monastery" or the "Kingdom of Hades", which is the Empire in Star Wars or the winter King's realm in The Game of Thrones or Mordor in The Lord of the Rings mistakes phantasmagorical concepts of the information dimension for primal 3d reality. It is "pattern-centrism".
Where does the pattern actually come from? Where do the concepts of circles, rectangles, triangles, squares and symbols themselves actually arise when it's difficult to find such a thing in the natural world? The easiest one to find is a circle--the disk of the sun is fairly close to a perfect circle. When the sun is behind clouds one can see it as a disk. It is easy to replicate with a mechanical version of a an algorithm: trace out a circle with a string fixed to the center. It's more difficult to find natural analogues of rectangles or even straight lines, so where could the idea even originate? In a nutshell, I think the base representation of these geometric "ideas" is encoded in the human visual system's hardware, but the "running software" of consciousness or cognition is actually in "the information dimension(s)" and the information dimensions are all orthogonal to 3D reality and each arises from the meat computer brains of men and animals and even machines that produce their own information dimension.
The relationship between the information dimension and the 3d reality world is at the root of this split in philosophy. Descartes line, "I think therefore I am" is a good summary of the false monastery take. The fundamental reality is attained through symbolic reasoning, really the ability to reason rather than the sensation of being alive. A great fictional depiction of this mode of thinking is the idea that "human consciousness" could be transplanted into a computer, then "you" would "live forever". This notion is shown in various Star Trek episodes, Stargate episodes and in the TV show "The 100" in "The City of Light". Another variation on this theme is the Star Trek character Data. Though he's a machine, he's conscious and unique. There's even a trial about it in episode which is one of the great examples of sci-fi speculative philosophy.
The false monastery or Hades Kingdom tends toward brutality and psychopathy and sterilization of nature. The approach is "imposition of forms" driven by a religious devotion to pure "idealism".
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