EXCERPT Indeed, both life and time-receptivity—in their intimacy and congenitality—can be mutually defined as nothing but self-interments Only by retreating inwards, into fluency with its own system-states, does the organism progressively separate itself from the causal absolutism of the surrounding milieu, obtaining ever more functional leeway and behavioural lability via increasing delamination from its immediate environs. (This is why the CNS has long been seen as the organ of individuation.)…