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Insofar that "order" or patterns are "stories"/perceptions made by an observer, it seems randomness also would have to be a "story". So, what's "really out there" is...? Is there a useful distinction between randomness as a state of things versus randomn processes? I.E. the Sudoku example--- a solved puzzle may look to be in a random state but the process by which it came about was not random at all but was subject to certain restrictions (no two adjacent numbers can be identical). And as the opposite of that, random processes can in theory yield anything, including what may look to an observer to be a highly organized state/non-random pattern, regardless of how improbable it may be. So maybe it makes sense not to ask only where did things come from (a random or ordered state) but how they've evolved (random vs. non-random processes)? Either way, the question/answer seems to have to always go back to the observer, so I like the image of the ouroboros and the notion that "the only thing that can create is that which is already created".