Individuality appears to be grounded in the body. but not the body as a material object since the distinctions in matter and in its processes is a product of the mind, of how we construe the material world for our purposes. Rather it is the body as life, as only with life that there are distinct and competing organisms. These oppositions arise on the surface of a common life that merely takes on temporary forms which transform into each other. This appearance is a product of individuation and not its ultimate source.