The following are examples of our WESTERN CULTURE linguistic “short-cut” where we substitute GROWTH for TRANSFORMATION because GROWTH implies a FIGURE-and-GROUND-as-TWO topology which is easier to express than the FIGURE-and-GROUND-as-ONE actual reality.  Henri Poincaré explains our WESTERN CULTURE penchant for simplifying our conceptualization of space as follows;

And just as our Copernicus said to us : It is more convenient to suppose the earth turns round, since thus the laws of astronomy are expressible in a much simpler language ; this one would say: It is more convenient to suppose the earth turns round, since thus the laws of mechanics are expressible in a much simpler language. . This does not preclude maintaining that absolute space, that is to say the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves, has no objective existence. Hence, this affirmation; ‘the earth turns round’ has no meaning, since it can be verified by no experiment; since such an experiment, not only could not be either realized or dreamed by the boldest Jules Verne, but can not be conceived of without contradiction; or rather these two propositions; ‘the earth turns round,’ and, ‘it is more convenient to suppose the earth turns round’ have the same meaning; there is nothing more in the one than in the other. “ — Henri Poincaré, ‘Science and Hypothesis’, Ch. VII Relative Motion and Absolute Motion

In other words, this assumption of FIGURE-AND-GROUND-AS-TWO is a CONVENTION that we have BUILT INTO LANGUAGE BASED REPRESENTATION because of the CONVENIENCE of the SIMPLIFICATION it delivers to the ARTICULATION OF REALITY, … ALTHOUGH this simplification introduces a SUBSTITUTE REALITY which DROPS OUT the natural FIGURE-and-GROUND-as-ONE complexity of the REALITY OF OUR ACTUAL SENSORY EXPERIENCE.

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