A domain is an expression medium for a static pattern which has a uniform set of laws that constrain the replication of that static pattern. While domain-specific laws vary across domains, Static Pattern Engineering enumerates laws for patterns that span across all domains.
There are three domains of interest in Static Pattern Engineering:
- Cognitive (where a static pattern is only expressed or reified in a human or artificial brain but is not yet replicable outside the host) -- the laws are of cognition and a transformed form of physics, constrained by the laws of cognition for the hosting cognition
- Virtual (where a static pattern has been persisted as a cognitive artifact that allows it to replicate across multiple hosts in the cognitive domain with partial transformation) -- the laws are transformed laws of cognition and a transformed form of physics, constrained by the laws of physics applied to the physical medium hosting the cognitive artifact
- Physical (the static pattern has been reified into physical reality or the virtual domain with a low degree of virtuality with a high degree of transformation so as to require reverse engineering of the original cognitive form of the static pattern) -- the laws are the laws of physics for the physical medium/media reified into.