Hegel likens the movement of Notion to the development of organic things. A seed grows and brings forth its content. He says the seed includes all elements of a mature tree but it we cannot take the two identical. However, various stages of growth of a plant cannot be assigned to various objects but to the given plant, and similarly, constituents of Notion during its development are "identical" with each other and with the whole. The question here is to what sense Hegel tries to employ an analogy between Mind and Nature. Is really Mind the extension of Nature and follows its rules? So, we should scrutinize processes in Nature and try to apply them to mental processes. On the other hand, one may say though Mind chronologically emerges after Nature it functions in a different realm, and therefore, Hegel's analogies are mere illustration to clarify his complicated concepts.
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