An event is not triggered by a chain of being, but by a field of causes spreading horizontally, like creeping tide. (Kevin Kelly (editor))

An event is not triggered by a chain of being, but by a field of causes spreading horizontally, like creeping tide.

Kevin Kelly (editor)

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