The difference between form and pattern

It is tempting to imagine that form and pattern are two different things, because pattern suggests the involvement of an intelligence, either in the design of the pattern, or in the interpretation of a pattern which has evolved independently of intelligence. But the two are precisely the same thing. Pattern does not presuppose an organizing intelligence, and to think that it does is to put the cart before the horse (or in our day and age, to press the monitor screen, hoping that the mouse will move). We who are endowed with intelligence may discern pattern that may or may not have been arranged according to an intelligent design (such as writing), but those patterns existed before our interpretation of them, and constitute an entity in the universe (in other words, a form, or structure), irrespective of our involvement.

We cannot discover patterns before they are discovered, but undiscovered patterns surely exist. These patterns (and therefore structures) are necessarily infinite in number, as they consist of the matter in the universe (ink on a page, or a galaxy) arranged in a particular way, and the possible arrangements that exist are infinite.

Therefore the universe is infinite because of the patterns/forms/structures that exist within it, rather than because of a banal, anthropomorphic interpretation of its dimension based on human-related size limitations and boundaries.