A is never really A
...it just reminds us so much of A that we can't tell the difference.
Each instance of a pattern is actually a separate event of a particular duration and character. Similarity itself is a property of memory, both our own neurological capacity for memory and the memory which makes up the Cosmos (makes up in every sense). I'm sure that a brain injury could be arranged where A looks like A out of one eye but 之out of the other. There's just no A 'there'... the A is 'here'.
That's not to say that A is ONLY here, in fact I suspect that A is actually everywhere, whether it contacts your consciousness or not, it has always and will always 'exist' (ensist?) as a potential just as pattern and order can always be brought into being.
Each instance of a pattern is actually a separate event of a particular duration and character. Similarity itself is a property of memory, both our own neurological capacity for memory and the memory which makes up the Cosmos (makes up in every sense). I'm sure that a brain injury could be arranged where A looks like A out of one eye but 之out of the other. There's just no A 'there'... the A is 'here'.
That's not to say that A is ONLY here, in fact I suspect that A is actually everywhere, whether it contacts your consciousness or not, it has always and will always 'exist' (ensist?) as a potential just as pattern and order can always be brought into being.