Schismogenesis is a kind of creative opposition.
- Schismogenesis is a kind of creative opposition.
- You look at something your neighbor does and oppose it.
- "Neighbor" might be in time, as in "the generation before mine."
- Without that opposition, there's no way for something distinct to bud off.
- For something to break off there has to be a negative boundary gradient for it to pinch off into a new thing.
- There has to be a schism or else it just gets sucked back into the main thing.