Identity arises when a focal point over time experiences the world from a stable attractor landscape. Through continuous resonance, recognition and stabilisation a higher understanding of this view gradually arises as a coherent whole.

Identity is therefore not a single attractor, but an emergent representation that arises when a focal point begins to understand its own perspective as something lasting. What is identified with is not the relations themselves, but the total understanding of the relations as they appear from a particular position in the attractor landscape.

Identity is therefore not a substance, an object or an independent existence. Identity is a metaconstruction — a higher understanding of a perspective and the relations observed from this perspective. Identity is an emergent higher attractor.

The more stable the attractor landscape is, the more strongly the representation of identity will appear. The focal point then gradually begins to experience itself as something that exists independently of the relations it observes. This is how the experience of being something arises.

Identity therefore does not represent that which experiences, but that which is experienced about that which experiences. THE EXPERIENCER remains the same. It is the representation of who or what experiences that gradually takes shape through Emergence Dynamics.

Like all stable understandings, identities can also enter into new emergent wholes and form the basis for further levels of identity. Identity is therefore not a fixed quantity, but a continuous reorganisation of how a focal point understands itself and its relation to the rest of KNOWING.

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