Just an idea: I did a search on the list archives and found 694 posts containing the word "number" and 271 containing the word "numbers". There were 54 that contained the word "pattern". The ones I looked at did not strongly reflect the following:
Perhaps we should just demote the concept of number and just use the idea of pattern. Numbers, strings, and universes would all be just representations and "pattern" would be the fundamental. Hal Hal
