The concept of constant movement could be conceived in two ways. It could mean that the movement is occurring continuously over a period of time or it could equally mean that it is remains unchanging over over a period of time. In either case, the mention of the word "period" situates the movement (which is constant) as a divided movement. The word period, has as a definition, "a length or portion of time" or "an interval of time". The definition presupposes a cut or division.
"... movement is indivisible, or cannot be divided without changing qualitatively each time it is divided."
– Gilles Delueze (reiterating Bergson's first thesis on movement)
Yet, if movement can't be divided then how could we define a unique or particular movement, as opposed to the whole of movement in general? There would only be one eternal movement that would be in the process of moving at all times. From the expanding universe through to its galaxies, stars, planets and all dependent life and matter, every movement would be dependent on another and could in fact be seen as one. Perhaps movement, as we use it conceptually, needs to be definable from a point of view and a division; a cut, that isolates it from the greater whole. A movement, encompassed within a beginning and end, that defines it as an object of our own subjective phenomenological creation.
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