## Rule: No physiological state is ever simply given; every state is the achievement of a process and the condition for the next. ## Derivation: Being is becoming. The body is not a collection of things in states but a nested series of processes achieving momentary configurations. The body like the self is constantly recreating itself into future moments, but the past also has influence on that instant of becoming. ## Clinical Implication: You cannot assess a patient based on a single moment in time. The trajectory of how a state was reached is inseparable from the state itself. Two patients may present identically but require opposite interventions if their trajectories arrived at that point from opposite directions.