Process & Reality: Alfred North Whitehead, Process Philosophy, and Organic Realism

[@MikeWiest]

Thank you, this is very helpful. He seems like Spinoza with the addition of global/divine teleology which Spinoza denied unequivocally. Spinoza’s determinism actually was formulated so it could be consistent with quantum physics, imo.

[@SeiroosFardipour-sy3sh]

Any ideaology has have to be a short term solution,the final step sould lead to anarchism but as self realization firstly and consequences secondly.

[@donaldwhittaker7987]

I think Whitehead unintentionally violates Ockham's razor. Whereas Spinoza cleverly said the universe was God (thus enabling us to eliminate God from the conversation without losing any attributes of the universe), Whitehead asserts that the universe is in God and God in the universe. Any attributes attributed to God can be asserted as characteristics of the universe without losing anything. As with LaPlace's Celestial Mechanics, there is no need for a God hypothesis to adequately describe the motions of the heavens. Whitehead's process philosophy can be quite reasonable if it is not too metaphysical, too Bergsonian. Process can be purely material and still be process. Matter does not have to be just blind Brownian motion as billiard balls on a table. The notion that the universe is alive is to my mind Deepak Chopra woo woo. We can have increasingly complex organic structures from organelles to planets and not get carried away with unverifiable nouns. I prefer early Wittgenstein, Russell, and Ayer. Cheers.

[@SeiroosFardipour-sy3sh]

Ockham's razor définition is what ,I see it to reduce all assumptions to one and beyond but what will it be beyond except who is reducing ! ultimately one can not get but to it's own nature where subject/ object relationship will end up by nothing but relationship or process

[@NoDebut]

6:11 it's funny cos I'm here because of a name drop by Terence, too 😊 ✨✌️🫰