/sci/ - Science & Math

>>2529964

fuck you.

that is all.

>>2472134
lol not quite, but Whitehead took care of everything. Too bad so few people can understand his work.

mfw perceptions are functions of the bodily state, consciousness is a function of perception, and therefore each body must in principle have a separate consciousness.

ref: Process and Reality by Alfred North Whitehead
P.126 (corrected edition) P.193 (Macmillan edition)

>>2403555
>2+2=4
The result of combining two groups of two units is a group of four units, but do not be fooled. Addition is a process and the sum is the result of that process.

Consider two groups of two water droplets; when combined they might form one drop of water or they may split into fifty drops of water. It is true, however, that the one drop or the fifty droplets will be four units in volume.

For more see A.N.Whitehead's Modes of Thought

Whitehead throws away this fallacy; in his system the two modes of analyzing an actual occasion cover the wave/particle bases (and there isn't any duality, dipshits) but I always seem to go far over /sci/'s collective head by taking it to the process philosophy level.

>>2079264
>It's hard to apply the scientific method to ideas.

lolwut. Whitehead's Process and Reality did a good job of it...