Meaty chat! Finally found the time to watch it fully—KUDOS to Pedro and you! ^^
I guess the first encounter with Bergson is pretty special for anyone who naturally connects with his framework. I can vividly recall my own. I haven't read Whitehead, though—I’ll get my hands on "Religion in the Making" sooner or later.
Are you familiar with Ilya Prigogine? One of the defining minds of the 20th century, yet often overlooked. He’s the man: the only scientist I’ve found who takes Bergson’s ideas—along with Freud, Hegel, Epicurus, and others—seriously into account and successfully bridges the “two cultures” divide (that artificial split between the humanities and science). He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry while laying the foundations for Chaos Theory with his concept of dissipative structures (alongside Mandelbrot’s discovery of fractality). Prigogine would argue that any form of duration—whether of a being or a material reality—shares the all-encompassing arrow of time, inscribed in matter itself.
I also like Zubiri’s idea of "materism" as opposed to "materialism": every reality is grounded in matter, but this doesn’t negate matter’s psychic openness to another kind of reality beyond the purely physical.
Not to add more by-the-ways, but BTW, I find the concept of "Free Lunch" to be quite rich as an alternative to the Big Bang Theory—which, after all, is essentially the same idea found in "Genesis" and has a very Plotinian-emanative structure.
Keep up the good work! It’s so refreshing to see Bergson addressed with such fidelity. For better or worse, "Process thinkers are very dispersed," indeed ;)
If you do get Pedro and Jack together for a chat, would you be open to a live audience calling in internationally. I’d love to be a fly on the wall for that chat!
Meaty chat! Finally found the time to watch it fully—KUDOS to Pedro and you! ^^
I guess the first encounter with Bergson is pretty special for anyone who naturally connects with his framework. I can vividly recall my own. I haven't read Whitehead, though—I’ll get my hands on "Religion in the Making" sooner or later.
Are you familiar with Ilya Prigogine? One of the defining minds of the 20th century, yet often overlooked. He’s the man: the only scientist I’ve found who takes Bergson’s ideas—along with Freud, Hegel, Epicurus, and others—seriously into account and successfully bridges the “two cultures” divide (that artificial split between the humanities and science). He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry while laying the foundations for Chaos Theory with his concept of dissipative structures (alongside Mandelbrot’s discovery of fractality). Prigogine would argue that any form of duration—whether of a being or a material reality—shares the all-encompassing arrow of time, inscribed in matter itself.
I also like Zubiri’s idea of "materism" as opposed to "materialism": every reality is grounded in matter, but this doesn’t negate matter’s psychic openness to another kind of reality beyond the purely physical.
Not to add more by-the-ways, but BTW, I find the concept of "Free Lunch" to be quite rich as an alternative to the Big Bang Theory—which, after all, is essentially the same idea found in "Genesis" and has a very Plotinian-emanative structure.
Keep up the good work! It’s so refreshing to see Bergson addressed with such fidelity. For better or worse, "Process thinkers are very dispersed," indeed ;)
If you do get Pedro and Jack together for a chat, would you be open to a live audience calling in internationally. I’d love to be a fly on the wall for that chat!