lations that come to mind include: trade, 
&gt; communication connections
&gt; and schedules (eg. road, rail, cable), treaties, taxation and social
&gt; security - all possibly with time-varying capacities, many of 
&gt; which were
&gt; exemplified in the last century by the impacts of technology 
&gt; and/or the Iron
&gt; Curtain. 

MW: Let us consider Being 1 and Being 2. Each of these is a state the is the
whole of their existance. I now have a state S1 and a state S2, where S1 is
a substate of Being 1 a