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Do any of you have a hero who you look up to? My hero is Alfred North Whitehead. William James as well.

>>12433653
You are in for Alfred North Whitehead, a man who cuts through so much Cartesian bullshit and false conceptions of spatiality and temporality it will fundamentally reorient you to an analytic clarity of understanding of eastern spiritual tradition. Whitehead was a burning light in a sea of dogma, an adventurous wonderer who held fast to reason and the direct understanding of human experience. The tome is dense and demanding, but the light radiant and elevating. Delve deeply my friend. Whitehead is the man of the hour.

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>>12423424
That is not Whiteheads writing. He is far more articulate and precise than that, and he never denigrates by referring to ideas as idiotic. Whitehead's prose is occasionally sublimely coherent and smooth and occasionally poetic. I highly doubt the above is written by Whitehead rather than a commentator. Source?

As for Whitehead and the eternal objects, he is essentially irrefutable. Say we have an essay which contains some logical flaws that the writer was unaware of. The flaws are not in the mind, since the writer is unaware of them, the flaws are not in the ink, since the ink contains no argument in and of itself, but the flaws remain to be realized in the mind of a reader should they discover them. The flaws have the potentiality of being realized in the understanding at some later stage in the un-actualized future. This shows that there is an atemporal existence beyond experience. It is possible for you to turn off your computer and walk out the door, but this possibility has no actual existence until one actually acts out the phenomena in temporal reality. So the eternal objects are the totality of unrealized atemporal possibility/potentiality. It is from the realm of eternal objects the the concrete actual forms which compose the whole of concrete existent actuality partake. Blessed Whitehead never fails.

So stoked he is becoming a meme. The world will be better when Whitehead becomes the governing meme of /lit/

>>12404473
Read Concept of Nature, Whitehead phenomenologically re-situates the sciences therefore preserving them whilst properly qualifying them so that they do not outstrip their own claims to truth WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY shuting down trash physicalist/dualist metaphysics by attacking the bifurcation of nature. Shit should be mandatory reading for scientists in university.

>>12404259
The world would be a better place if Whitehead was the new meme. We could have a beautiful society if Whitehead was the new meme. We have a moral duty to make Whitehead the new meme.

>>12367264
>orthogonal
dualism is incomprehensible. Alfred North Whiteheads fallacy of misplaced concreteness essentially is why. Any attribution we assign matter is divorcing a sense experience from its concrete phenomena, and then claiming that the abstraction is pervasive and fundamental apart from sense experience. What we mean by spatiality is spatiality as it is within experience, just as when we speak of love we speak of its qualitative experience. We cannot divorce spatiality or love from our experience and claim them some external existence in which they somehow maintain their qualities while simultaneously somehow not having those qualities. It's incoherent to have a substance dualism. One must consider the mental and the physical identical or essentially become an idealist/panpsychist/panentheist.

>>12364759
Unnfff loving the Whitehead posting. Every time I see his glorious face being shared I feel a shred of hope for humanity.

>>12358808
Modes of Thought is a good start.\

We need to collectively meme the fuck out of whitehead. He is the man for the times in every sense. He is the death knell of physicalism and trash scientism. He is the philosopher of ecology who provides a way for us to understand our role and context in the environment. We need whitehead and haven't a second to lose. Panpsychism should be taught in grade school.

>>12339875
Bro you NEED to read Process and Reality by Alfred North Whitehead, or at the very least Concept of Nature to rid you of the untenable physicalist phantom of abstraction. If this stuff is seriously compromising your wellbeing it is important for you to discover that it is false, and not only that to KNOW it is false. Whitehead is an excellent place to start although he can be difficult.

Also if you are wanting to know how we have free will and self determination please read my post here >>12339849

>>12312850
>attributing unpredictability to chance and not to conditioned free will of panpsychic universe

ishygddt

>>12321125
forgot pic