 Sometime probably in the middle of the fourth century BCE, a radical shift in vocabulary, concerns, and visions of the human took  place.[3]  This new position has long been known from the Laozi, but recent archaeological discoveries show that the Laozi was just one of a number of positions that together constitute what we might call “a cosmogonic  turn.”[4]  These texts are the first we know of to directly question how the diverse things of the world arise and take form. This concern seems to have been bound up with de-centering and de-privileging human beings. As the Zhuangzi puts it: