..As a node navigates the world, it may feel as though the world is passing through it instead of it passing through the world. If it moves forward, the floor moves back. If it ascends, the world appears to lower itself. If it opens the door to the next room, the door frame to the different room passes through it. If it turns itself to the right, the entire cosmos swivels to the left.
the universe is a perpetual treadmill. the node is born and will die on this treadmill, never genuinely going anywhere. the node is always here. it cannot be anywhere else. only one point of reference exists. experience is locked in this space. it cannot be known whether one is moving through the universe or if the universe moves through one.
World-streaming inverts the phenomenology of motion relative to an invariant experiental node: the organism does not translate through space; the world streams past the organism. Under world-streaming, surfaces loom and recede, horizons pivot, depths dilate and compress, and auditory and haptic fields reorganize analogously, while the node at which these changes appear remains fixed. The organism never departs nor arrives anywhere. Experiential states are summoned into presence through intention at an invariant center.
Figure 1. self-translation: the organization in which locomotion is given as the organism translating through a stable environment. the locus traverses space. the world is the container. the organism is the mover.