Updating is a solution to a specific problem, a result of factors that combine to create a solution. Pierre Lévy defines updating as "a creation, an invention of a form from a dynamic configuration of forces and purposes."^[11]

Updating is the creation, the invention of a form from a dynamic configuration of forces and purposes, and can therefore be defined as the inverse movement of virtualization.

Updated by Pierre Lévy

The same occurs because it represents a mutation of identity; a shift in the ontological center of gravity of the object under consideration instead of being defined by its actuality; a "solution." The entity comes to find its essential consistency in a problematic field, that is, actualization goes from a problem to a solution, while virtualization goes from a given solution to a problem.