duality and complementarity of Tao

A painting by Jim Thompson  

In the process description is useful, having made a distinction of description, to move from a dualistic logic of opposites or the type or/or (good/bad, beautiful/ugly, black/white ...) to a logic of the type and/and, taking into account the recursion between form and process.

In 1976 Francisco Varela proposed to describe the recursive complementarity between process and form as:

the thing / the process that leads to the thing

as examples:

form/process
territory/map
describing/described
observer/observed
subject/object
environment/system
family/individual
context/ordinary action
whole/part
circle/line
recursive/lineal
mind/body
cybernetics II/cybernetics I
autonomy/control
organization/structure
aesthetic/pragmatic
art/technical
being/becoming
learning II/learning I

F. Varela, "Not one, not two", CoEvolution Quaterly, 1976