The second part of each pattern is the pattern’s name. In the world of language, this higher-level pattern is simply the word “apple.” Although we directly use our neocortex to understand and process every level of language, most of the patterns it contains are not language patterns per se. In the neocortex the “name” of a pattern is simply the axon that emerges from each pattern processor; when that axon fires, its corresponding pattern has been recognized. The firing of the axon is that pattern recognizer shouting the name of the pattern: “Hey guys, I just saw the written word ‘apple.’”
