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Someone give me a quick rundown on this. I heard it was coocoo panpsychism stuff and I'm interested.

>> No.19797321

Whitehead was refuted by W. Norris Clarke. Become a giga-Thomist instead.

>> No.19797328

Read Quantum of Experience

>> No.19797451

>>19797328
By who

>> No.19798059

bump

>> No.19798494

>>19797312
He was retroactively refuted by Parmenides. That's all I know

>> No.19798546

>>19797312
> Someone give me a quick rundown on this
a frivolous experiment of thought that was retroactively refuted by Abd al-Wāḥid Yaḥyá and Παρμενίδης ὁ Ἐλεάτης, curious as an intellectual oddity but lacking profundity and philosophical rigor

>> No.19798566

>>19797451
James Bond

>> No.19798598

Nobody here has read him and I only listened to a lecture on him and I am pretty sure that lecturers opinion was crap because I quickly forgot it

>> No.19799420

>>19797312
It's sophistry, but basically right. All things are becoming, nothing "is" in the sense that stasis is exists only as an abstraction since nowhere in reality are things frozen in time and state, and things that appear to be are merely occupying a space in a continuum between states as part of a "process".

>> No.19799843

>>19799420
Is Buddhism sophistry too you little fucking fag

>> No.19801040

>>19797312
It's not coocoo and it's not really panpsychism. Whitehead believes that experience (not consciousness) is atomic, which is to say that everything has "experiences." For certain kinds of complex arrangements (which you can call a "nexus" in his language) consciousness emerges out of that atomic capacity to experience. However, it is not necessarily so, with consideration to trees, mountains, etc. which I don't take Whitehead as arguing on behalf of. The most important part of Whitehead's philosophy is that things are always changing into new things and that novelty is the key principle of our universe. His most woo-woo ideas are about everything being contained in each occasion, so everything is in this cosmic entanglement of relationships in which each thing contains the outcome of the entire universe, which isn't even woo-woo so much as a unique perspective on physics.

>> No.19801403

>>19799843
yes

>> No.19802652

>>19798546
thanks for not writing Yaḥyá's name in arabic script, it would have been terrible to look so pretentious

>> No.19803068

>>19797312
simplest way: things are in space and time, but time is more important than space. everything is constituted by relationships and is always in a process of becoming itself. also, god is creating himself.

>> No.19803444

>>19801040
what a fantastic post thank you anon

>> No.19805004

Burger Deleuze. Yes Whitehead was an American.