Yes, they were talking to one another, moving about in ways that showed no predetermined pattern- they did appear to be self-aware.

His own relations with women were absorbed into what seems an almost predetermined pattern of salvation.

The sound is then presented to the listener and the level of the stimulus is manipulated in a predetermined pattern.

The mazes themselves are not random, but there are various predetermined patterns.

If it's true that human character is set by the age of 5, then these people are following predetermined patterns.

A shopping good is one in which the consumer does not have a predetermined pattern in mind.

The spray gun is moved in a predetermined pattern to create uniform thickness of the laminate.

Men wiser and more learned than I have discerned in history a plot, a rhythm, a predetermined pattern.

Enemy wands that kill the player if touched march in predetermined patterns around each level's grid.

Growth has to be gradual, restrained, and wholly within the predetermined patterns of the Great Way.