Does form/the known, exist in a void?

What seems to rise from the void is activity. The fluctuating vacuum.

Which would produce patterns. Such as waves/amplitude/frequency. Then quantities and interaction of initial patterns, such as numbers and geometry.

The only argument for such patterns to exist prior to/within the void are they are common and universal. Yet that could also be explained by the process creating them, the fluctuations, being common. Identical cause yields identical effect. Process generates, patterns are generated.

Process goes past to future generations, while these patterns coalesce and dissolve, future to past. Potential, actual, residual. So the potential precedes the actual.

Once we get to more complex patterns, the potential increases much faster than the actual. So potential is not perforce actuality. The act of determination is causal. The input has to be computed, before the output is manifested.

For example, a circle has to be generated, to exist. The idea and the ideal of a circle are human assumptions.

To assume what is distilled is foundational and not just structural, is to mistake the skeleton for the seed.

The ideal is not the absolute.