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Yes, I think that works as a way to conceptualize what Whitehead was getting at. The numbers/patterns are what give rise to the quantifiable aspect (sets the objective determinate physical form) while the subjective eternal forms are the archetypes of experience associated with the number/patterns.

So there is a pattern associated with the mother figure. (There’s is something ‘what it is like’ to be a mother.) There is objective features like being a being in time and then a self-replication process that creates a new and different being of a child in time (There is something ‘what it is like’ to be a child, and ‘what it is like’ to have a child). And so there is a recognizable pattern of both the eternal elements.

The primordial nature would include all features of all elements, the math, the patterns and the subjective experiences associated with each.

Levin’s work is showing that we are learning how to harness those patterns towards instantiating novel configurations.