“We shall only comment here that, as already mentioned, the imagery of cosmogenesis as an undifferentiated whole — air, air ball, chaos, chaotic primeval water, indeterminacy — differentiating into heaven and earth, or whatever other binary constituents of the cosmos (such as Ying and Yang here), which started in creation myths and continued into historiogenesis (e.g. the Japanese Kojiki) and philosophy (e.g. Daodejing and here), is the imagery of the substratum as the function of the memory of Conservation becoming active. If there is never any destruction or construction, then there is only a consubstantial substrate re-shuffling itself here and there into this and that being. The differentiation of the indeterminate substrate into the first constituents of being is the beginning of this “self-shuffling”.
-The Structure of the Cosmos
