an alternative to 'causative process'

We might conceive of the artist as a pre-given entity who views, is
inspired by, and utilizes pre-given things in the world around her as
she then goes about making her work. The production of the work would
then be a causative process contributing in turn to the production of
the historical world. We might also understand the work as an
objectification of the artist, an expression of her inner spirit that
externalizes and actualizes it. Nishida envisioned an alternative: the
artist takes in or intuits the world and transforms or enacts it, both
of which are but two moments in a single unfolding—not only of the
world but of the artist as well. Both artist and work are formed
mutually and are reflected in one another. While this mutual formation
can be described in terms of a causative process taking time, with the
person first intuiting or internalizing and then acting or
externalizing, Nishida described it in terms of the place or topos
wherein intuiting entails acting and acting intuiting, and wherein the
difference between internal and external collapses.
--http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nishida-kitaro/