Full Idea
Process philosophy insists that processes themselves both instantiate and transmit structural patterns. …That is denied is the exclusive prevalence of inevitable preestablished patterns that make prediction unfailingly possible.
Gist of Idea
Processes instantiate and transmit patterns, though these are not predictable
Source
Nicholas Rescher (Process Metaphysics [1996], 3.2)
A Reaction
I include this because it offers a link to the idea of mathematics (in Resnik's phrase) as 'the science of patterns'. What then links the enduring nature of mathematics to unpredictable patterns is functions, which are multiply realisable.
Book Reference
Rescher,Nicholas: 'Process Metaphysics' [SUNY 1996], p.76