The continuous flow of creation in a region of the world

We are familiar with the human body as something which exists in flow, not as a fixed object.

Links to kinesthetic image schemas, even though his point here is more about the changing character of us and of the world.

But because the fundamental process has, at its core, the idea that the life of any center only comes about when this center is making life in some larger center, by definition, then, the coherence spreads upwards and outward, from each small act of construction or repair, to the larger entities that are being nourished and created.

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