Regarding repetition

I recently had a discussion with one of my housemates on whether repetition and patterns are artificial creations of man; anything resembling order in nature is human nature applying our need to form connections and structure, as nature in of itself is not self aware. That implies humans are not a "natural" form, because we do identify and make patterns, or nature as a whole is self-aware, because patterns exist anyway since we find them. Somehow this is relevant to what I'm doing.