Maturana and Varela « Frames /sing: "Here is Spinoza’s famous Ethics defintion, and an even more elementary and bold one from his much earlier Short Treatise on God, Man and His Well-Being (KV)
Ethics: When a number of bodies of the same or different magnitude form close contact with one another through the pressure of other bodies upon them, or if they are moving at the same or different rates of speed so as to preserve an unvarying relation of movement among themselves, these bodies are said to be united with one another and all together to form one body or individual thing, which is distinguished from other things through this union of bodies (E2p13a2d)"
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