03.02 Process Thinking - Beyond Networks: The Evolution of Living Systems

[@brynbstn]

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.

[@BandhanMukherjee]

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.

[@ayan849]

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.

[@tinfoilhatscholar]

Good words. The wisdom of changes has always lived in the East

[@gustavocastelli7344]

I,m totally impressed with these lectures, which I found by accident. Extremely interesting the philosophy of process. I think it's wotrh to highlight that Nietzsche was of the same opinion, at least in his first books. In Genealogy of Morals he says (N.13): "A quantum of force is just such a quantum of drive, will, action, in fact it is nothing but this driving, willing and acting, and only the seduction of language (and the fundamental errors of reason petrified within it), which construes and misconstrues all actions as conditional upon an agency, a ‘subject’, can make it appear otherwise. And just as the common people separates lightning from its flash and takes the latter to be a deed, something performed by a subject, which is called lightning, popular morality separates strength from the manifestations of strength, as though there were an indifferent substratum behind the strong person which had the freedom to manifest strength or not. But there is no such substratum; there is no ‘being’ behind the deed, its effect and what becomes of it; ‘the doer’ is invented as an afterthought, - the doing is everything. Basically, the common people double a deed; when they see lightning, they make a doing-a-deed out of it: they posit the same event, first as cause and then as its effect". I hope it helps for I always found this thought both true and provoking, and now I realize that he wasn´t taht alone. By the way, the physicist Carlos Rovelli is of the same idea. Thank you very much for your videos

[@michaelschrader3007]

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

[@filipepagin]

Outstanding presentation 🔥. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

[@EmptyBuddha92]

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

[@mazyar_]

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?

[@antiret]

Alfred Whitehead seems to be waaay ahead of his time. He's even holding a smartphone in the picture!

[@independencemp3]

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

[@tinfoilhatscholar]

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

[@harikrishnanr522]

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

[@sergesolkatt]

❤️

[@tixch2000]

do not forget David Bohm..;)

[@majorlycunningham5439]

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