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Change is the nature of all things, and the metaphysical nature of change is expressed in the fundamental theorem of calculus.

A metaphysical emphasis on change is necessarily a metaphysical emphasis on interconnectedness. The grand view of existence that emerges from this is not the creator/creation dichotomy, but a vision of the universe as a tapestry of co-creative mutually influential entities. Ecosystems ecology is an expression of this in the domain of biology.

The Many become One, and are increased by One as One among Many.

>Objectivity, facticity, is the permanent aspect of reality - immortal achievement immorally realized; subjectivity, immediacy, process, is its changeable aspect - its advance towards novelty. But subjectivity is not the result of an underlying subject's activity of relating objects to itself, of a one weaving a many into the pre-existent unity of its oneness. It is, rather, the "growing together" (concrescence) of objects to create a novel subject which enriches the many from which it springs. "The many become one, and are increased by one." The entire world finds its place in the internal constitution of the new creature, and the new creature lays an obligation upon the future: that it take into account the value achieved by the new creature. Thus every creature both houses and pervades the world.

>Two inseparable notions therefore constitute the foundational insight of Whitehead's process philosophy: the permanence of value achieved and the ongoingness of value achievement. To construct a metaphysical scheme capable of elucidating the implications of these notions was his purpose in writing Process and Reality.