If think that the debate is that nonewhistanding the validity of the statistical approach of evolution embodied in population genetics, there is a need for a structural approach explaining the mechanisms involved in phenotypic variation, without that it's a bit like approaching criminality on the sole statistical aspect of it, it could be totally accurate but nonetheless useless to find solutions without taking into account the socioeconomic factors.

So a cell runs on temperature for its internal movements?

Omg a lecture with a killer cliff hanger! Now that's novelty!

Wow, these lectures are incredibly eye opening!

Thanks for posting these lectures.

I really wish these videos were ad free.

Finite and infinite mean countable and uncountable. Different from ending and unending.

To be successful in Academics you must create growth for the wealthy. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oYukanukpZiUjJY

I really loved this. It was a really good presentation.

A helpful introduction in process philosophy. The idea of substances seduces us to think that substances are real objects.

20 years ago I watched a presentation of a robot for the automatization of PCR. The common comment from the PIs was: "Why should we spend money, when we can use the students to do the same?" And this is what academia is all about: and assembly line full of overqualified workers. What could go wrong?

Haven't watched this yet since it was literally released an hour ago, but I was watching part of the Beyond Networks lecture series a few days ago and was delighted to see this come up on my feed. I wish I knew about your work when I was an undergrad bio student 8 years ago who ultimately eschewed further pursuit of academia. Looking back now, it strongly resonates me with and some of the intuitions I had back then, and if I had gone down that path I would've loved to pursue furthrer study from a processual perspective. Thank you.

3 years and then pop goes the weasel.😂

Congratulations 😊

Evolution only seems to say this, there are heritable characteristics and those who don't reproduce don't pass them along. You don't say, Sherlock?

WOW!! thank you, so mind-stimulating and fun to learn!!

Another kick in the pants and confirmation to what is see and understand. Thank you!

Thanks for the kick in the pants!

I'm reminded of the following reflection on Aristotelian causality by David Bentley Hart (from his 2023-2024 Substack series "Reflections on Life and Mind"): "The fourfold system of causality that we associate with Aristotelian tradition, for instance, which was the standard vision of cosmic order in the pre-modern Western and Islamic worlds, depicted the universe as an interweaving of logical relations, some coming from “above,” as it were, some from “below,” but all also from “within.” It is this last that we all too often forget. Of the classical tetrad of causes-the material, the efficient, the formal, and the final-it is often said that modern science retained only the first two; in fact, it retained none. The old model was not a scientific account of reality in the modern sense, nor today would it actually constitute a rival to the sciences as we know them, but we tend to remember the scheme only in broad outline, while rarely recalling what it was a scheme for. Certainly, by the seventeenth century, it had come to be seen by many as the logic of human manufacture illicitly extended to natural kinds, and the illegitimate imputation of a kind of designing logic to nature’s processes. In truth, however, it was simply the logic of predication-one that may not be in any sense an adequate model for the purposes of the sciences as they took shape in the modern age, but that nonetheless, at a more fundamental level, makes the sciences possible."

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"Nothing, finally, is as fleeting, as ultimately unreal as a 'fact.' The thousand daily tasks that act out, say, a marriage are embedded in the order of time. In themselves, individually and collectively, they are trivial, capable of being replaced by a wholly different set. Nor is the reality of marriage simply the idea thereof, a set of obligations and privileges which could be itemized in a contract. All those are incidentals. The reality of marriage is its sense, ingressing in time and giving meaning to fact and substance to idea." Erazim Kohák (1984) The Embers and the Stars

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Fascinating talk thank you. I gather from a Process position, is there is no Kantian Ding-an-sich; What is Whitehead’s critique of Kant?

Kolmogorov complexity is a very powerful concept (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity) allowing to step back and have a broader look on information content. z^2+c is a very simple equation, yet the results of analysing behaviour of this equation for z such, that |z|=1 are rather rich. What information is supplied as the input of such a process? The equation is part of mathematics and *minimal amount of information to do it properly is set theory, so this is a source of information hidden in the environment. When Fatou and Joulia started to investigate these kind of equations, they would have to use thousands of human computers to achiever results not coming close to what any willing, mildly educated and not particularly opulent person could do together with some CAS software. A day or two of work on this equation can produce gigabytes of data, yet these can not be easily compressed without knowledge of the initial information used to create this data set of pixels. There are quite a number of possible models. Every such model is a part of some axiomatic system. Genome interacts with an environment on different levels: the direct environment of gestation, the broader environment of special ecosphere... It is a very important, indeed vital, but an arbitrary decision of the human researcher to declare some parts of this environment as signal and some as noise. *one of possible foundations

Is it possible, that bifurcations in higher dimensions and near double, n-tuple roots might be emerging as a result of adversarial actions of competing control systems? These might be taking place on finance and military activities.

Man ur awesome... people don't really understood whitehead

It is by no coincidence that many of the same process philosophers were also panpsychists… and another related theory is that of open individualism.

We believed in Solids. Now we understand them as relationships in Movement.

I had a not so great experience with KLI! I applied for a doctoral fellowship and received violently hostile reviews of my proposed project. Gratuitously violent, deeply unconstructive criticisms. Many of their criticisms were inane and demonstrably false. For example , one reviewer complained that I wasn’t a suitable candidate for a postdoctoral position at KLI because I only had THREE publications one of which had been published by a division of the American Psychological Association and received only 32 citations at the time of my application. But I hadn’t yet finished my phd? I was applying for a doctoral fellowship and not a postdoc!The fellowship I applied for was aimed squarely at doctoral candidates and not post docs. It was bizarre and unpleasant. I voiced my concerns regarding my reviewers’ betrayal of ignorance regarding even the category of fellowship I was applying for and I was told that it was an error of minor significance and that I should accept the decision and move on. One is not even allowed to pushback thereby demonstrating one’s actual competency. I thereafter reframed my problematic so as to remove my work from the prying eyes of dogmatic biologists.Never again!

The subjective - objective continuum. Subject: mind is open. Object: mind is closed.

do not forget David Bohm..;)

Great

it's not so much that you can't SAY something ilogical, rather, the very idea of THINKING is impossible outside logical space, as thinking is pointing at something and saying "that" or "not that". "Your hair is monday" is perfectly sayable, yet it SHOWS nothing. Where does "knowledge" enter here? Maybe some of his followers derived that,but not in Wittgenstein, at least not in the TLP.

A cell is not a machine.. Nor is a city.

I prostrate to the Perfect Buddha, The best of teachers, who taught that Whatever is dependently arisen is Unceasing, unborn, Unannihilated, not permanent, Not coming, not going, Without distinction, without identity, And free from conceptual construction. Nagarjuna, Dedicatory verses, Mulamadhyamakakarika.

These lectures are perfect

Probably shouldn't say controversial things like Leibniz invented calculus with no justification in instructional videos if you want people to take you seriously

On my 2nd lecture , but I would suggest that context obsoletes facts and information obsoletes knowledge and wisdom. Why? Information flows and self corrects given time and evolves open ended including failures . Knowledge is a “final” closed loop compartmentalized pretense in my view and opinion which necessarily lead to infinite “ defenses” etc to maintain the illusion control, while ignoring the wonder and excitement of the roller coaster of the unknown …

Johannes no doubt there will be much I don’t agree with, that remains to be seen and doesn’t really matter anyway haha. Your material very closely aligns with my own anti-philosophy i have been independently developing for many years and am currently writing about as well in science fiction and other formats. Its so very rare to find something so aligned with my core convictions that this is a magnificent surprise - A true gem if a find and one of the best things i have discovered on youtube. Thank you for taking the time to do these lectures. I look forward to comparing notes at some point as i suspect there is much to discuss that would interest us both. ( I come from engineering, manufacturing and business background but i should have been a biologist perhaps haha)

Is it principle possible to have a unified explanation all the way down to the molecular level, or just in praxis incomprehensible

Thank you - this is extremly relevant and the right way to go! I wish you great success with your further studies and adequate funding. ❤

I find the conclusion to be far-fetched. The proposition “We'll never have certain knowledge of the truth” is presented as a certain one and so is self-defeating.

Thank you for this personal and frank perspective! Much appreciated!

From a perspective of a scientist questions may be more valuable than answers, because they allow science to march on and scientists to develop their careers. But the goal of science is to first and foremost find answers, even if they are preliminary. No society would pay for science to just find questions. People search for meaning and solutions to problems, answers given by science contribute to that. Without questions science is sterile, but without answers it's pointless. Both questions and answers contribute to knowledge.

This is fantastic material! Thank you so much.

Truth.

Outstanding really really amazing talk. As a neuroscientist metaphysics will help me to think and view the unseen phenomenon inside our brain. Just amazing. Thanks so much.

Can we think in the hubs of the systems as a system in itself? Therefore, can systems be viewed as fractals?

Very helpful. I'm currently working on darwinism, process metaphysics, and species. Thanks!

Thanks for making this video. I started reading Process & Reality many years ago (1985), after my undergrad in Philosophy, and hit a brick wall. Back then there was no internet, so was impossible to find others interested in this line of thought. I gave up. Now I'm picking up this interest again, and it's so much easier. Nice to hear about some current process philosophers and see some "live process philosophizing", as opposed to simply trying to shed light on Whitehead's oeuvre. I'll be checking out your other videos.