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“IV. (9) 

The understanding 
                   forms positive ideas 
              before 
                  forming negative ideas.

V. (108:10) 

It perceives things not so much under the condition
   of duration as under a certain form of eternity, and in an
   infinite number; or rather in perceiving things it does not
   consider either their number or duration, whereas, in imagining
   them, it perceives them in a determinate number, duration, and quantity.”

--- Benedictus de Spinoza. “Improvement of the Understanding.”

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Here's a great example of long-term thinking:

The Chinese have a legend that a demon once offered to teach an alchemist how to turn base metal into gold. "But will it remain gold?" the alchemist asked.
"Will it not return to its original elements?" "Certainly," replied the demon, "but that need not trouble you, for no such change will take place until ten thousand ages have
passed." The alchemist refused the gift. "I should rather live in poverty," he said, "than bring a loss upon my fellow men, even after ten thousand ages have passed."

--- The world's story; a history of the world in story, song and art, ed. by Eva March Tappan. Published in 1914.
https://archive.org/stream/worldsstoryhisto01tapp/worldsstoryhisto01tapp_djvu.txt

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TxM -> TxM

Here we have an endofunctor and a topos (if we consider this structure as a dynamical system).

Truth object for this dynamical system:

True: {1,1} -> {0,1} -> {0,0}

False: {1,0} -> {1,0}

Note: the coordinates are in TxM phase "becoming" space wrt novelty, novel/emerging = 1, existing/established = 0.

https://youtu.be/o-yBDYgUqZQ?t=6008