So Whitehead recognized the multi layered nature of formative patterns, though here he only alludes to two specifically, and that they are malleable, rather than perfect as Plato posited. He also recognized the creative independence and separate cognition of 'actualities', his term for what we now call agents.
He also observed that as actualities creatively diversify and complexify not only does the universe evolve but god evolves.
If we take these observations out of the limitations of the process philosophy framework and compare and combine them with other observations from other philosophical frameworks, what can we say about reality that is more comprehensive?
I have been listening to your discussions with Michael Levin. He uses the metaphor of tools as modes of exploration. This sounds like something William James might have said. I am in the very early stages of learning Whitehead’s thoughts. I have heard you say that there was a deep mutual awareness between Whitehead and James. In the interplay between the primordial and concrescence, there could be something like a toolbox. It would be more than a matter of conceptualization but also something like a pure right brain(in the McGilchrist sense) being. One that interests me is the use of psychoactive compounds like ayahuasca or psilocybe cubensis. The recent discoveries relevant to quantum entanglement in microtubules is fascinating. For me, knowledge comes in two forms, the ability to do and the ability to be(in a state so to speak) The tools that can facilitate being in a relationship that is somehow more desirable in the sense of creativity and wisdom would be a really welcome part of anyone’s toolbox.
A summary that captures it all: the eternal objects as embedded in the Wholeness of Beauty, Truth and the Good. Perhaps also a supporting understanding for Federico Faggin’s supposition that ‘The One wants to know itself’.
I have collected the exoskeletons of snails for 30 years. It was their beauty and diversity that first attracted me. And my interest has taken me down many rabbit (w)holes, including early on meeting Hans Meinhardt, the author of 3 editions of The Algorithmic Beauty of Seashells. His work helped me to understand that the meta-patterning in the structural forms and surface designs on seashells point to a deep order in the universe and I have run with that. An overall theme has to do with the reconciliation of opposites. (see my paper on academia.edu Dinergy: the Primordial Meta-Pattern in Nature) Interestingly, his early work on simulating the patterning in an on the surface of seashells has contributed to the development of AI.
The seashell family Xenophoridae (Carrier Shells) best exemplifies prehension and concrescense in something you can hold in your hand. ‘Each finite actual occasion, in its process of self- creation, encounters this divine ideal’. As they grow they add empty shells or other items(including broken glass and bullets) they find on the ocean floor by attaching these items to their shells.
The shells of all snails are variations of the logarithmic spiral and we are all attracted to those shells that most closely follow the golden mean. This extends to confirming mathematics in regard to both aesthetics and function(see the Power of Limits by Gyorgy Doczi and the work of the Russian scientist Sergey Petoukhov).
So Whitehead recognized the multi layered nature of formative patterns, though here he only alludes to two specifically, and that they are malleable, rather than perfect as Plato posited. He also recognized the creative independence and separate cognition of 'actualities', his term for what we now call agents.
He also observed that as actualities creatively diversify and complexify not only does the universe evolve but god evolves.
If we take these observations out of the limitations of the process philosophy framework and compare and combine them with other observations from other philosophical frameworks, what can we say about reality that is more comprehensive?
Would you say this is like a form of radical pluralism?
I have been listening to your discussions with Michael Levin. He uses the metaphor of tools as modes of exploration. This sounds like something William James might have said. I am in the very early stages of learning Whitehead’s thoughts. I have heard you say that there was a deep mutual awareness between Whitehead and James. In the interplay between the primordial and concrescence, there could be something like a toolbox. It would be more than a matter of conceptualization but also something like a pure right brain(in the McGilchrist sense) being. One that interests me is the use of psychoactive compounds like ayahuasca or psilocybe cubensis. The recent discoveries relevant to quantum entanglement in microtubules is fascinating. For me, knowledge comes in two forms, the ability to do and the ability to be(in a state so to speak) The tools that can facilitate being in a relationship that is somehow more desirable in the sense of creativity and wisdom would be a really welcome part of anyone’s toolbox.
Here's what scares me AI. Your essay explains God, where as AI is logic/patterns. If we go beyond
physics and biology one can observe signs of "emergence" in artificial intelligence-the appearance
of new behaviors in systems by interacting parts. Today we wonder if AI may begin to exhibit a mind also!(AI and Faith)
When reading Process Theology it reminds me of my limited knowledge of AI. We humans seem
to like AI, but within five years or so I predict the exploding growth will be the "intelligence" flood
as was the water flood of Noah!
A summary that captures it all: the eternal objects as embedded in the Wholeness of Beauty, Truth and the Good. Perhaps also a supporting understanding for Federico Faggin’s supposition that ‘The One wants to know itself’.
I have collected the exoskeletons of snails for 30 years. It was their beauty and diversity that first attracted me. And my interest has taken me down many rabbit (w)holes, including early on meeting Hans Meinhardt, the author of 3 editions of The Algorithmic Beauty of Seashells. His work helped me to understand that the meta-patterning in the structural forms and surface designs on seashells point to a deep order in the universe and I have run with that. An overall theme has to do with the reconciliation of opposites. (see my paper on academia.edu Dinergy: the Primordial Meta-Pattern in Nature) Interestingly, his early work on simulating the patterning in an on the surface of seashells has contributed to the development of AI.
The seashell family Xenophoridae (Carrier Shells) best exemplifies prehension and concrescense in something you can hold in your hand. ‘Each finite actual occasion, in its process of self- creation, encounters this divine ideal’. As they grow they add empty shells or other items(including broken glass and bullets) they find on the ocean floor by attaching these items to their shells.
The shells of all snails are variations of the logarithmic spiral and we are all attracted to those shells that most closely follow the golden mean. This extends to confirming mathematics in regard to both aesthetics and function(see the Power of Limits by Gyorgy Doczi and the work of the Russian scientist Sergey Petoukhov).