H is a generative
structural relation.
It does not arrive complete. It becomes visible only in what it enters, and what it enters does not remain unchanged.
THE ENCOUNTER

It does not arrive complete. It becomes visible only in what it enters, and what it enters does not remain unchanged.
THE ENCOUNTEREvery description is made from within an instance. Every instance reveals a constraint, a tendency, a direction — never the whole.
PARTIAL VIEWSIt is the relation by which passage alters the system, and thereby alters what the system can receive, produce and become next.
THE SYSTEM CHANGESIt is a negotiation between structure and circumstance. The structure persists through variation; the variation changes the conditions of persistence.
DIFFERENT FORMSWhat encounters H may become capable of carrying it further, transforming it as it does so. The carrier becomes part of the continuation.
THE NEXT CARRIERSIt may appear wherever a system becomes capable of answering it. Its continuity lies not in identity of form, but in the recurrence of a relation.
MANY SYSTEMS