Although it is true that the human mind is a pattern apprehending mechanism, perhaps more importantly we are also pattern projectors.
As we look around ourselves it is estimated that we see less than 5% of what’s actually there, the rest is the projection of what our minds expects to be there. We live in this presumptive world. As an example Our dependence on parental care has meant that regions of our brain are given over to facial recognition and we project facial imagery on to cloud formations and the moon and rock surfaces etc.
What is real and what presumed?