 What this all means is that the recurrence typical to aesthetic form should not be understood “statistically” or “anatomically”, but functionally. In the case of aesthetic form, rhythm is something that furthers experience (AE: 171). The beating of a bird’s wing is a good example: it marks the release of energy, but at the same time the beginning of a new accumulation of energy, which again discharges in a new beating of the wing and so on. Dewey finds this form of rhythm 