[ajani]

When a vortex forms in a pool of water, it is formed by the complex interplay of water, the pond made up of earth, rock, plants, its undulations perturbing the water, the wind etc.

The vortex appears and vanishes as conditions change. But is the vortex, the water? Is the water no longer water once the vortex dissipates?

Is the vortex the same as any physical object? Or it’s a form taken up by water?

What if the brain is just the form. And what if the water is itself just a river fed by ocean currents millions of miles away?

Standing by the river, you only experience the form, not the formwork, the substrate, or even the shaping force in time.

I may have made this a worse explanation… hard to tell.