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Being is a habit of mind or matter - a regular tendency or repetition - this is to say that it is an integration over time (a summation of behavior.) Being and becoming are co-equals in the process of reality, and are found in calculus (the mathematical study of change) as integration and differentiation. This isn't an abstraction, these are fundamental modes of change-perception: that of instantaneous change in an omnipresent experiential moment (present-mindedness, the perception of "now") and cumulative change over time (our perception of past, present, and future; the narrative and linguistic mode of thinking.) These are also operations of an evolutionary process: exposure to novel sense-data in the present moment mutates our experience, while the integrative temporal-minded mode is selective, choosing items of experience for emphasis according to a goal. Also we can do more than just be passively mutated by the present moment: by asking questions and following the resulting lines of inquiry we can apprehend new information and experiences.