“Self-Devouring”. Interesting concept.
I can see it being used in both practical and creative modes of communication. A Physicist works on a mathematic formula that germinates like a tomato seed. It sprouts, roots stems, buds, blossoms, produces fruit, depletes the mineral content in it’s soil and begins to degenerate or die. The stems become barren and dessicated. The stem tips, falls, rots and rejoins the earth as a newer source of mineral.
Musicians will write concertos or riffs describing that same pattern of events and using sound to tell the tales.
Um....huh?