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How to Live a Good Life: Advice From Wise Persons Ethical Behaviors Willpower
Quotes I
Process Philosophy, Becoming, Growing, Organisms,
Transforming, Beings, Creating, Evolving, Changing,
Oscillating,
Emerging, Modifying, Flowing, Relations, Sequences, Time,
Interdependence, Moving,
Reproduction, Replication, Connections, Novelty, Cycles, Duration,
Processes, Patterns, Temporal,
Regularities,
Annual,
Monthly, Weekly, Daily, Hourly, Events, Occasions, Moments, Incidents,
Acting, Past,
Self-Creation, History, Repetition,
Present, Now,
Creativity, Luck
(Persons, Experiences,
Perceptions, Feelings, Actions,
Sensations, Expectations, Anticipations,
Consciousness, Interactions, Memories, Emotions, Power, Affections, Thinking),
[Assumptions,
Languages, Pragmatism, Schemas, Interpretations, Facts, Phenomenology,
World-Views, History,
Freedoms, Future, Philosophy, Metaphysics, Ecology, Theology, Idealism,
Centuries-Eras-Generations-Decades, Possibility-Actuality, False-True,
Structures, Speculations],
{Family, Neighbors,
School, Community,
Customs, Appropriate Social-Linguistic Interactions,
Work, Tasks, Society,
Aging, Education, Literature, Art, Sports, Games, Technology, Agriculture,
Culture,
Music, Decades, Commercialism, Theater, Rituals} ...
Rootedness to Place/Time, stuck with the grim givens, Overjoyed at a Summer
Harvest ...
ALL intertwined Within the Becoming of my-Vancouver-2021-verse of the Multi-Verses.
Quotes, Sayings, Facts, Lore, Poetry
Quotations: Process Philosophy: Quotations I Quotations II
"Philosophers who appeal to process rather than
substance include Heraclitus, Karl
Marx, Friedrich
Nietzsche, Henri
Bergson, Martin
Heidegger, Charles
Sanders Peirce, William
James, Alfred
North Whitehead, Maurice
Merleau-Ponty, Thomas
Nail, Alfred
Korzybski, R.
G. Collingwood, Alan
Watts, Robert
M. Pirsig, Roberto
Mangabeira Unger, Charles
Hartshorne, Arran
Gare, Nicholas
Rescher, Colin
Wilson, Tim
Ingold, Bruno
Latour, and Gilles
Deleuze. In physics, Ilya
Prigogine distinguishes between the "physics of being" and the "physics of
becoming". Process philosophy covers not just scientific intuitions and
experiences, but can be used as a conceptual bridge to facilitate discussions
among religion, philosophy, and science."
- Process
Philosophy - Wikipedia
Process
Philosophy - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
"It seems sensible to understand "process philosophy" as a
doctrine committed to, or at any rate inclined toward, certain basic
propositions: 1) Time and change are among the principal categories of
metaphysical understanding. 2) Process is a principal category of
ontological description. 3) Processes are more fundamental, or at any rate
not less fundamental, than things for the purposes of ontological theory.
4) Several, if not all of the major elements of the ontological repertoire (God,
Nature as a whole, persons, material substances) are best understood in process
terms. 5) Contingency, emergence, novelty and creativity are among the
fundamental categories of metaphysical understanding.
A process philosopher, then, is someone for whom temporality, activity, and
change─of alteration, striving, passage, novelty-emergence─are the cardinal
factors for our understanding of the real. Ultimately, it is a question of
priority─of viewing the time-bound aspects of the real as constituting its most
characteristic and significant features. For the process philosopher,
process has priority over product─both ontologically and epistemically."
- Nicholas Rescher, Process Philosophy, 1928, p 6.
"The cycles that can ground us through our busy lives are:
breath, rhythms of the day, weekly rhythms and Sabbath rest, waxing and waning
lunar cycles, seasons of the year, seasons of a lifetime, ancestral time, and
cosmic time. Each cycle encourages us to mindfully consider the time that
passes as quickly as each breath and as slowly as the passing of generations."
- Christine Valters Paintner, Sacred Time, 2021
"Philosophers can never
hope finally to formulate these metaphysical first principles. Weakness of
insight and deficiencies of language stand in the way inexorably. Words and
phrases must be stretched towards a generality foreign to their ordinary usage;
and however such elements of language be stabilized as technicalities, they
remain metaphors mutely appealing for an imaginative leap."
- Whitehead, Process and Reality, 1928, p. 4
"Process philosophy, a 20th-century school
of Western philosophy that emphasizes the elements of becoming, change, and
novelty in experienced reality; it opposes the traditional Western philosophical
stress on being, permanence, and uniformity. Reality—including both the natural
world and the human sphere—is essentially historical in this view, emerging from
(and bearing) a past and advancing into a novel future. Hence, it cannot be
grasped by the static spatial concepts of the old views, which ignore the
temporal and novel aspects of the universe given in man’s experience."
- Encyclopedia Britannica, 2021
"Mind transforms the continuance of physical
spacetime into moments (the absolute Now) and blends these moments into an
apparent continuity through an overlapping of unfolding capsules. The flow of
psychological time is an illusion based on the rapid replacement of these
capsules. Each mind computes the measure of time passing and duration from the
decay of the surface present in relation to a core of past events. As each new
surface is generated, that surface, the rim of the immediate past, recedes in
the wake of rising contents. This recession, an uncovering of phases latent in
the original traversal, exposes layers in the past forming the content of the
immediate past moment. The surge of the microgeny to a surface that dissolves
the instant it appears, the priority of the Self in the unfolding sequence, the
feeling of agency, create a Self in a state of becoming, a Self that travels in
time like the crest of a wave, always in pursuit of a future just beyond the
grasp of the present."
- Jason W. Brown,
Psychology of Time Awareness, 1990
"The
Huayan developed the doctrine of "interpenetration" or "coalescence" (Wylie:
zung-'jug; Sanskrit: yuganaddha),[23][24]
based on the
Avatamsaka Sūtra, a Mahāyāna scripture. It holds that all phenomena
(Sanskrit:
dharmas) are intimately connected (and mutually arising). Two images are
used to convey this idea. The first is known as
Indra's
net. The net is set with jewels which have the extraordinary property that
they reflect all of the other jewels. The second image is that of the world
text. This image portrays the world as consisting of an enormous text which is
as large as the universe itself. The words of the text are composed of the
phenomena that make up the world. However, every atom of the world contains the
whole text within it. It is the work of a Buddha to let out the text so that
beings can be liberated from suffering. The doctrine of interpenetration
influenced the Japanese monk
Kūkai, who
founded the
Shingon school of Buddhism. Interpenetration and
essence-function are mutually informing in the East Asian Buddhist
traditions, especially the
Korean Buddhist tradition."
-
Buddhist Philosophy
"Reality is a process: nothing ever stays the
same.
The process of reality is creative, emergent, evolutionary, and social.
There is a profound relationship between creativity, beauty, and life.
All life deserves respect; nothing in nature stands alone; everything is
connected.
Thinking and feeling are connected; mind and body are not separate entities;
aesthetic wisdom and rational inquiry are complementary.
Human experience begins by feeling the presence of the world and being affected
by it.
Human happiness involves sharing experience with others and responding in
harmony to these relationships."
- Jay McDaniel, 2020,
Some Principles of Process
Philosophy
"This sense of reality as a dynamic breath-force tissue is
reflected in the Chinese language itself, and so operates as an unnoticed
assumption in ancient Chinese consciousness. There is no distinction
between noun and verb in classical Chinese. Virtually all words can
function as either. Hence, the sense of reality as verbal: a tissue alive
and in the process. This includes all individual elements of reality, such
as mountains or people, and contrasts with our language's sense that reality is
nominal, an assemblage of static things. A noun in fact only refers to a
temporal slice through the ongoing verbal process that any thing actually is."
- David Hinton, China Root, 2020, p. 35
Some Principles of Whitehead's Thinking
1. Question the assumptions of your community, your society,
your religion, your science, your educational institutions, especially those
that are rarely mentioned.
2. Question the dominant media, asking who controls it and what they want you to
think.
3. Recognize that a serious answer to any important question brings into view
lots of other questions.
4. When people appeal to mystery, consider that it may be mystification.
Push critical thought as far as you can.
5. Recognize that the wider range of influences on an event or person that
you consider, the better you understand that event or person.
6. Recognize that the broader you consideration of the context and of the
likely consequences of your action, the better chance that you will make the
right choice.
7. Realize that all your ideas and values are influenced by your
particular situation, but refuse to conclude that for this reason they can be
dismissed as merely "relative."
8. Recognize that there may be no actions that are completely harmless,
but do not let that prevent you for acting decisively.
9. Understand that compassion is the most basic aspect of our experience,
and seek to liberate and extend your compassion to all with which you come in
contact.
10. Deepen you commitments to your own immediate communities, but always
remember that other communities make similar demands on their members. Let
you ultimate commitment be all-inclusive."
- By John B. Cobb, Jr.,
What would Whitehead Think?
“They both listened silently to the water,
which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the
voice of perpetual Becoming.”
- Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
The Core Doctrines of Process Philosophy for
Circa 2020 CE:
"1. The integration of moral, aesthetic, and religious intuitions with the most
general doctrines of the sciences into a self-consistent worldview as one of the
central tasks of philosophy in our time.
2. Hard-core commonsense notions as the ultimate test of the adequacy of a
philosophical position.
3. Whitehead's nonsensationist doctrine of perception, according to which
sensory perception is a secondary mode of perception, being derivative from a
more fundamental, nonsensory "prehension."
4. Panexperientalism with organizational duality, according to which all true
individuals─as distinct from aggregational societies─have at least some iota of
experience and spontaneity (self-determination).
5. The doctrine that all enduring individuals are serially ordered societies of
momentary "occasions of experience."
6. The doctrine that all actual entities have internal as well as external
relations.
7. The Whiteheadian version of naturalistic theism, according to which a Divine
Actuality acts variably but never supernaturally in the world.
8. Doubly Dipolar Deism.
9. The provision of cosmological support for the ideals needed by contemporary
civilization as one of the chief purposes of philosophy in our time.
10. A distinction between verbal statements (sentences) and propositions and
between both of these and propositional feelings."
- David Ray Griffin,
Reenchantment Without Supernaturalism, 2001, p.1-12, summary excerpts.
Quotations: Process Philosophy Quotations I Quotations II
Image of a Human Cell from a powerful microscope.
New technology makes advances-expansions possible,
creates chances for new experiments and tests,
can create new questions and answers,
can reveal diverse opportunities
for making practical improvements
in our daily lives.
The Human Body
Transforming Itself
Every Day
For an "average" person:
If your heart beats on the average at 80
beats per minute, then your heart beats 115,200 times each day.
If you take 20 respirations a minute, then your breathe in and out 28,800 times
each day.
Your body has about 5.6 liters (6 quarts) of blood. This 5.6 liters of blood circulates through the body three times every minute. In one day your heart circulates 6,390 gallons (24192 liters). In one day, the blood travels a total of 12,000 miles. The heart pumps about 1 million barrels of blood during an average lifetime - that's enough to fill more than 3 super tankers. If all arteries, veins, and capillaries of the human circulatory system were laid end to end, the total length would be 60,000 miles.
Urinates about 1.5 quarts a day (1500 ml).
The human body consists of about 60 trillion cells (6x10^13). There are about 60 trillion atoms in a human cell.
Each human cell contains a nucleus with forty-six chromosomes. Each of these chromosomes are comprised of between 30,000 and 50,000 genes and intervening sequences.Along with the common chimpanzee, the bonobo is the closest extant DNA relative to humans. The published chimpanzee genome differs from that of the human genome by 1.23% in direct sequence comparisons.
The human body is 60% water.
"Although people may think of their body as a fairly permanent structure, most of it is in a state of constant flux as old cells are discarded and new ones generated in their place. Each kind of tissue has its own turnover time, depending in part on the workload endured by its cells. The cells lining the stomach, as mentioned, last only five days. The red blood cells, bruised and battered after traveling nearly 1,000 miles through the maze of the body's circulatory system, last only 120 days or so on average before being dispatched to their graveyard in the spleen. White blood cells live on average more than a year.
The epidermis, or surface layer of the skin, is recycled every two weeks or so. The reason for the quick replacement is that "this is the body's saran wrap, and it can be easily damaged by scratching, solvents, wear and tear," said Elaine Fuchs, an expert on the skin's stem cells at the Rockefeller University.
As for the liver, the detoxifier of all the natural plant poisons and drugs that pass a person's lips, its life on the chemical-warfare front is quite short. An adult human liver probably has a turnover time of 300 to 500 days, said Markus Grompe, an expert on the liver's stem cells at the Oregon Health & Science University.
Other tissues have lifetimes measured in years, not days, but are still far from permanent. Even the bones endure nonstop makeover. The entire human skeleton is thought to be replaced every 10 years or so in adults, as twin construction crews of bone-dissolving and bone-rebuilding cells combine to remodel it.
About the only pieces of the body that last a lifetime, on present evidence,
seem to be the neurons of the cerebral cortex, the inner lens cells of the eye
and perhaps the muscle cells of the heart. The inner lens cells form in the
embryo and then lapse into such inertness for the rest of their owner's lifetime
that they dispense altogether with their nucleus and other cellular organelles."
- Nicholas Wade,
Your Body is Younger Than You Think
"Digestion time varies among individuals and
between men and women. After you eat, it takes about six to eight hours for food
to pass through your stomach and small intestine. Food then enters your large
intestine (colon) for further digestion, absorption of water and, finally,
elimination of undigested food. It takes about 36 hours for food to move through
the entire colon. All in all, the whole process — from the time you swallow food
to the time it leaves your body as feces — takes about two to five days,
depending on the individual."
-
Mayo Clinic, 2021
Digestion Time
"As with many things in life, everyone is
different. This also applies to normal urinary frequency. For most people, the
normal number of times to urinate per day is between 6 – 7 in a 24 hour period.
Between 4 and 10 times a day can also be normal if that person is healthy and
happy with the number of times they visit the toilet."
-
Urinary Frequency
"The tongue is covered with around 9,000 taste buds that help us to detect
sweet, salty, bitter or sour flavours, explains Professor Damian Walmsley,
scientific adviser to the British Dental Association. The taste buds
themselves are a collection of cells on the surface of the tongue, each housing
about 50 taste cells. The buds renew themselves every ten days to two weeks.
Most of our cells that last a lifetime are found in the brain, explains John
Wadley, consultant neurosurgeon at Barts and the London Hospital. "We
are born with all the brain cells we'll ever have - around 100 billion -
and most of the brain does not regenerate as it gets older."
The cells in
the lungs constantly renew themselves, explains Dr Keith Prowse,
vice-president of the British Lung Foundation. However, the lungs contain
different cells that renew at different rates. The alveoli or air sac cells
- needed for the exchange of oxygen and gases - deep in the lungs have a
steady progress of regeneration that takes about a year. Meanwhile, the
cells on the lung's surface have to renew every two or three weeks."
-
Believe It or Not, 2000
"The average 20 year old American male weights 197 pounds (89.3 kg) and is 5'9" tall.
The average 20 year old American woman weighs 170 pounds, and is 5'4" tall."
-
Healthline, 2021
"The average birth weight for babies is around 7.5 lb (3.5 kg), although between 5.5 lb (2.5 kg) and 10 lb (4.5 kg) is considered normal." Birth Weight We grow from around 8 pounds (3.6 kg) to 180 pounds (81.6 kg) in your first 20 years of life.
"At birth, the average baby's brain is about a quarter of the size of the average adult brain. Incredibly, it doubles in size in the first year. It keeps growing to about 80% of adult size by age 3 and 90% – nearly full grown – by age 5. 90% of Brain Growth Happens Before Kindergarten." Brain Size Growth
"By age 5, children tend to have an expressive vocabulary of 2,100–2,200 words. By age 6, they have approximately 2,600 words of expressive vocabulary and 20,000–24,000 words of receptive vocabulary." Kindergarden Language Skills
"Two to 3 seconds for integration might be a “fundamental component of human cognition," the authors wrote, given that similar results have been seen across different tasks. It may "reflect a general organizing principle of human cognition—better defined as the ‘subjective present." Or in other words, “the phenomenal impression of ‘nowness.’” - How Long is Right Now, 2021, VICE
Human Evolutionary Development Timeline - Anthropology
"Human pregnancy can be divided roughly into
three trimesters, each approximately three months long. The first trimester is
from the last period through the 13th week, the second trimester is 14th–27th
week, and the third trimester is 28th–42nd week.[2] Birth
normally occurs at a gestational
age of about 40 weeks, though it is common for births to occur from 37 to 42
weeks.[2] From
the 9th week of pregnancy (11th week of gestational
age), the embryo is called a fetus. The average length of human
gestation is 280 days, or 40 weeks."
-
Human Gestation Time
"The United Nations estimate a global
average life expectancy of 72.6 years for 2019;" and,
maybe around 78
years in the USA. -
Life Expectancy - Our World in Data, 2021
Consider the "average" life expectancy of various animals and plants. Human beings normally, in 2021, live to around 73-78 years of age. A fence lizard, mouse, salmon, and hamster live around 4 years. Some zoo animals in captivity live longer than in the wild. Many insects and annual plants live only during the spring to fall each year, except for their seeds/eggs. And, I have seen and gently touched a Bristlecone Pine tree in the White Mountains of California, estimated to be 4,800 years old; and, walked below Coastal Redwoods, probably born over a 1,000 years ago, in the old growth Rockefeller Forest in the Humboldt Redwoods State Park in Northern California.
"Human cells make up only 43% of the body's
total cell count. The rest are microscopic colonists. This includes
bacteria, viruses, fungi and archaea (organisms originally misclassified as
bacteria). The greatest concentration of this microscopic life is in the dark
murky depths of our oxygen-deprived bowels. What makes us human is, in my
opinion, the combination of our own DNA, plus the DNA of our gut microbes."
-
More Than Half Your Body is Not Human
"In biology, homeostasis is
the state of steady internal, physical,
and chemical conditions
maintained by living
systems. This is the condition of optimal functioning for the organism and
includes many variables, such as body
temperature and fluid
balance, being kept within certain pre-set limits (homeostatic range). Other
variables include the pH of extracellular
fluid, the concentrations of sodium, potassium and calcium ions,
as well as that of the blood
sugar level, and these need to be regulated despite changes in the
environment, diet, or level of activity. Each of these variables is controlled
by one or more regulators or homeostatic mechanisms, which together maintain
life. Homeostasis is brought about by a natural resistance to change when
already in the optimal conditions, and equilibrium is maintained by many
regulatory mechanisms. All homeostatic control mechanisms have at least three
interdependent components for the variable being regulated: a receptor, a
control centre, and an effector."
- Homeostasis
"In summary, therefore, while in a normal
waking mode of consciousness, our perceived present rarely lasts longer than
five seconds, and frequently it lasts less than a second. On the average,
the time-span of the perceived present persist for two to three seconds."
- James L. Christian, Philosophy, 1973, p.1969
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The Five Senses Soma-Aesthetics Touching-Feeling-Hands Ethical Behaviors
Quotations: Process Philosophy Quotations I Quotations II
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Bibliography and Links
Process Philosophy
Note: I used the abbreviation 'VSCL' to designate
that a specific book is actually in my home library in Vancouver, Washington, in
2021-.
l have purchased mostly used paperback and hardbound books, and Kindle eReader
books, all from
Amazon.
Most local retail bookstores don't carry the kind of books I want to read and
study.
If you purchase an eBook from Amazon to read on the Kindle Paperwrite Reader, you can also have a copy sent to your desktop computer. The desktop Kindle reader allows you to copy/paste text from your screen to another application (e.g., Word, webpage editor, email, etc.).
I called it "The Valley Spirit Center Library" (VSCL) back in 1998, when we lived in Red Bluff, California. We were in the center (east-west) of the North Sacramento Valley from 1998-2017. The "Valley Spirit" is a key metaphor in Taoism (i.e., femininity, fertility, agricultural bounty, possibilities for civilized life, a productive-creative place-time) and resonates in Neo-Paganism and nature mysticism. Now, 2021, we live in the Columbia-Willamette River Valley in the Portland Metropolitan Area. We have lived in three valleys in our lifetime: the San Gabriel Valley of East Los Angeles, the far North Sacramento Valley, and the Columbia-Willamette River Valley.
Vancouver, Washington, Our Home Town from 2017-2021
Action Theory,
Philosophy of Action Wikipedia
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(1959-1938)
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Animism Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology
Arrow of Time,
Irreversibility,
Thermodynamics,
Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics,
Entropy,
Asymmetry
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Becoming, Impermanence, Change, History
Becoming Wikipedia "According to tradition, Heraclitus wrote a treatise about nature named "Περὶ φύσεως" ("Perì phýseōs"), "On Nature," in which appears the famous aphorism πάντα ῥεῖ (panta rhei) translated literally as "the whole flows [as a river]," or figuratively as "everything flows, nothing stands still." The concept of "becoming" in philosophy is connected with two others: movement and evolution, as becoming assumes a "changing to" and a "moving toward." Becoming is the process or state of change and coming about in time and space."
Becoming and Being in Modern Physics SEP
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Bergson, Henri. Key Writings. Bloomsbury Academic, Revised Edition 2014, 536 pages. VSCL.
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Biology
Broad, Charlie Dunbar (1887-1971) Books Mind and Its Place in Nature
Buddhism, Hinduism, and Taoism Related:
Dependent Origination, Dependent Arising, Pratītyasamutpāda: On a general level, it refers to one of the central concepts in the Buddhist tradition—that all things arise in dependence upon multiple causes and conditions.
Emptiness and Becominng: Integrating Madhyamika Buddhism and Process Philosophy. By Peter Paul Kakol. D.K.Printworld, 2009, 432 pages.
Emptiness (Sunyata) in Buddhist Hua-Yen Philosophy There is no inherent, abiding, eternal "substance" that is the foundation for the reality of things.
Echoes of No Thing: Thinking Between Heidegger and Dogen. By Nico Jenkins. 2019, 210 pages.
In Praise of Nothing: An Exploration of Daoist Fundamental Ontology. By Ellen M. Chen. Xlibris, 2011, index, 250 pages. VSCL.
Process Metaphysics and Hua-Yen Buddhism
Hua-Yen Buddhism, Avatamsaka Stura, Flower Garland Scripture
Dao De Jing: A Process Perspective. By Yu Fu and Hank Keeton. Susanna Mennicke, Designer. Seeing Tao Pub., 2019, 296 pages. VSCL.
Causality - Wikipedia
Causality: The Metaphysics of Causation - Stanford
Causality and Modern Science. By Mario Bunge. Third Revised Edition, Dover, 2011, 448 pages. Second edition in 1963.
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect. By Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie. Basic Books, 2020, 432 pages.
Statistics, Probability, Chance, Randomness
Time and Causality Across the Sciences. By Samantha Kleinberg. Cambridge University Press, 2019, 270 pages.
Theories of Causality: From Antiquity to the Present. John Losee. Routledge, 2017, 218 pages.
See Also: Present, Time, History, Past, Persons, Future, Causality
Center for
Process Studies, Claremont, California Founded in 1973 at the
Claremont Graduate School of Theology.
Chaos Theory - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Chaos: Making a New Science. By James Gleick. Penguin, 2008, 1987, 384 pages.
Children's Books: Process Philosophy
Is Was. By Deborah Freedman. Atheneum, 2021, 40 pages.
The China Root: Taoism, Ch'an and Original Zen. By David Hinton.
Shambhala, 2020, 161 pages. VSCL.
Circles,
Spheres, Balls: Symbolic Uses, Metaphors, Gardens, Sacred Spaces
Circles Spirals and Vortices: In Culture, Nature, and Science. Edited by Kinko Tsuji and Stefan C. Muller. The Frontiers Collection. First edition 2019. Springer, 314 pages.
Cloud Hands Blog by Michael
Garofalo since 2005.
Cobb, John B. Jr. (1925-)
Wikipedia
Books
Theology
For the Common Good
Process Theology
A Christian Natural Theology: Based on the Thought of Alfred North Whitehead. By John B. Cobb Jr. Westminster John Knox Press, 1965 First Edition, 2007 Second Edition, 192 pages.
Religions in the Making: Whitehead and the Wisdom Traditions of the World. By John C. Cobb Jr.. Cascade Books, 2012, 252 pages.
The Cobb Institute: A Community for Process and Practice. Classes, lectures, discussion groups, blog, information. Claremont, California. I am a member of this organization.
Robert George Collingwood (1889-1943) Books Idea of History
The Complete Works of Henri Bergson. Shrine of Knowledge, 2020, 615
pages. Kindle editon, VSCL.
Complexity, Diversity and
Multiplicity Quotations, Sayings, Poetry, Quips, Lore
Conservation, Limitations,
Frugality Quotations, Sayings, Poetry, Quips, Lore
Robert S. Corrington (1950-) Books
Nature's Sublime: An Essay in Aesthetic Naturalism. By Robert S. Corrington. Lexington, 2013, 230 pages.
Deep Pantheism: Toward a New Transcendentalism. By Robert S. Corrington. Lexington, 2017, 142 pages.
Nature and Spirit: An Essay in Ecstatic Naturalism. By Robert S. Corrington. Fordham University Press, 1992, 224 pages.
Nature's Transcendence and Immanence: A Comparative Interdisciplinary Ecstatic Naturalism. Edied by Marilynn Lawrence and Jea Sophia Oh. Foreword by Robert S. Corrington. Lexington Books, 2017, 192 pages.
Cosmology Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Cosmology Wikipedia
Cosmology: Plato's Timaeus
"Timaeus describes the account he is about to give as a “likely account” (eikôs logos) or “likely story” (eikôs muthos)."Cosmology: The History of Scientific Cosmology
Creativity, Innovation, Novelty
The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation. By Robert Grudin. Ticknor and Fields, 1990, 208 pages.
See Also: Society Persons Past Future Ethics
Dao De Jing: A Process Perspective. By Yu Fu and Hank Keeton.
Susanna Mennicke, Designer. Seeing Tao Pub., 2019, 296 pages. VSCL.
Dao De Jing (81 Chapters). Compiled and indexed by Michael P. Garofalo.
Daoism (Taoism) - Ripening Peaches
Denial of Death. By Ernst Becker. Free Press, 1997, 338 pages.
The Cafe on the Edge of the World: A Story About the Meaning of Life. By John Strelecky. Aspen Light, 2020, 136 pages. Kindle, VSCL!
On Death and Dying. By Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. Scribner, 1997, 288 pages.
The Last Dance: Encountering Death and Dying. By Lynne Ann DeSpelder and Albert Lee Strickland. McGraw Hill, 2014, 10th Edition, 736 pages.
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(1925-1995)
Books
Difference and Repetition. By Gilles Deleuze. Translated by Paul Patton. Columbia University Press, 1995, 350 pages.
"Deleuze claims that standards of value are internal or immanent: to live well is to fully express one's power, to go to the limits of one's potential, rather than to judge what exists by non-empirical, transcendent standards. Modern society still suppresses difference and alienates persons from what they can do. To affirm reality, which is a flux of change and difference, we must overturn established identities and so become all that we can become—though we cannot know what that is in advance. The pinnacle of Deleuzean practice, then, is creativity. "Herein, perhaps, lies the secret: to bring into existence and not to judge. If it is so disgusting to judge, it is not because everything is of equal value, but on the contrary because what has value can be made or distinguished only by defying judgment. What expert judgment, in art, could ever bear on the work to come?"
Dewey, John (1859-1952) Influential American pragmatist, educator, psychologist, political activist, and essayist. Books Pragmatism
Dewey: Time and Individuality, 1940, 16 pages.
Dewey: Existence as Precarious and Stable, 1940, 26 pages.
Developmental Psychology
Stopwatch on the Brain's Perception of Time
Difference and
Repetition. An Interpretation. A book by
Gilles Deleuze
(1925-1995) in 1968.
Dogen Zenji (1200-1253)
"Dōgen's conception of Being-Time or Time-Being (Uji,
有時) is an essential element of his metaphysics in the Shōbōgenzō. According to
the traditional interpretation, "Uji" here means time itself is being, and all
being is time." Uji is all the changing and dynamic activities that exist as the
flow of becoming, all beings in the entire world are time. The two terms are
thus spoken of concurrently to emphasize that the things are not to be viewed as
separate concepts. Moreover, the aim is to not abstract time and being as
rational concepts. This view has been developed by scholars such as Steven
Heine, Joan
Stambaugh and others and has served as a motivation to compare Dōgen's work
to that of Martin Heidegger's "Dasein". Recently,
however, Rein
Raud has argued that this view is not correct and that Dōgen asserts that
all existence is momentary, showing that such a reading would make quite a few
of the rather cryptic passages in the Shōbōgenzō quite lucid."
Ecology, Environmental Quotations, Sayings, Poetry, Quips, Lore
Loren Eiseley
(1907-1977) "We loved the earth but could not stay."
Loren Eiseley: Collected Essays on Evolution, Nature and the Cosmos. Edited by William Cronon. Library of America, 2016, 1066 pages.
The Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Paul Edwards, Editor in Chief. New York Macmillan Pub., 1967. Reprint of 1972. Four Volumes. Volumes 1 & 2, Abbagnano to Entropy. Volumes 3 & 4, Epictetus to Logic. Volumes 5 & 6, Logic to Psychologism. Volumes 7 & 8, Psychology to Zubiri. Each volume is about 1,150 pages. VSCL.
Entropy,
Asymmetry,
Arrow of Time,
Irreversibility,
Thermodynamics,
Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics
An Essay on the Principles of Human Action: Being and Argument in Favor or
the Natural Disinterestedness of the Human Mind. By
William Hazlitt (1778-1830), 1805. Nabu, 2010, 266 pages.
Anticipation for, planning for, imaginaing about the future while immersed in
the context of the present of our actual life is central to human action.
We rehearse the future by following a practical script of action. We
imagine what the future would-can-will be like, and take constructive actions
aimed to achieve what we have imagined. The future desirable states that
we which to create or make real in the future, include objectives and concerns
for others as well as for ourselves. We occasionally think a lot about
means-ends issues, but most often are doing actions targeted for specific future
states based on habits without thinking-evaluating much.
Ethics and Process Philosophy
How to Live a Good Life: Advice From Wise Persons
Relational Mindfulness: A Handbook for Deepening Our Connections with Ourselves, Each Other and the Planet. By Deborah Eden Tull. Wisdom, 2018, 376 pages.
Towards and Ecology of the Self
See Also: Society Persons Past Future Creativity Ethics
Experience and
Perception of Time Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Exuberance, Enthusiasm, Hope/Belief in the Future that Makes You Work Hard
Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty and Time. By Gaia Vince. Basic, 2020, 270 pages.
Darwin, Charles (1809-1882). The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of the Species, 1859. By Charles Darwin. Annotated by James T. Costa. Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press, 2009. Indices, references, biographies, appendices, 537 pages. VSCL.
Facebook Group: Process Philosophy for Everyone, 2021.
Family, Society, Neighborhood, Culture, Civilization,
Education, Language Learning, Development
Fechner, Gustav
(1801-1887)
Fiction: Process Philosophy
For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy Toward Community, Environment
and a Sustainable Future. By John B. Cobb and Herman E. Dailey.
Beacon Press, 1976, Second Updated edition 1994, 534 pages.
Matthew Fox
(1940-) Creation Spirituality
Original Blessing 1996
Free Will -
Wikipedia
Free Will - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Free Will. By Sam Harris. Free Press, 2012, 96 pages.
The Time and Free Will. By Henri Bergson. Shrine of Knowledge, 2020.
Creative Experiencing: A Philosophy of Freedom. By Charles Hartshorne. SUNY, 2012, 172 pages.
A Contemporary Introduction to Free Will. By Robert Kane. Oxford University Press, 2005, 208 pages.
Free Will See Also Persons, Time, Humans
Future
The Modal Future: A Theory of Future-Directed Thought and Talk. By Fabrizio Cariani. Cambridge University Press, 2021, 280 pages.
The Logic of the Future. By Charles S. Peirce. The 1903 Lowell lectures and correspondences. Edited by Ahiti-Veikko Pietarinen. De Gruter, 2021, 279 pages.
See Also: Present, Time, History, Past, Persons, Future, Causality
Bibliography: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Gaia: A New Look at Life of Earth. By James Lovelock. Oxford
University Press, 2nd Edition, 2016, 176 pages.
Gardening and Process Philosophy
Cloud Hands Blog by Michael
Garofalo since 2005.
Pulling Onions
Gare, Aaran Emrys
(1948-) Wikipedia Books Australian philosopher,
environmental expert
God, Supreme Being, Absolute, Divine, Deus SEE Theology
Google Scholar: Process Philosophy
The Grand Biocentric Design: How Life Creates Reality. By Robert Lanza,
Matej Pavsic, and Bob Berman. Benbella, 2021, 304 pages.
Griffin, David Ray
(1939-)
Books Theology
Growth, Rebirth, Life
Quotations, Sayings, Poetry, Quips, Lore
Guatarri, Felix
(1930-1992)
Hartshorne, Charles
(1897-2000) Philosopher, theologian, metaphysician, author, professor, Process
Philosopher. Wikipedia
Hartshorne, Charles Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Hartshorne, Charles Books by Charles Hartshorne
Insights and Oversights of Great Thinkers: An Evaluation of Western Philosophy. By Charles Hartshorne. Albany, New York, State University of New York Press, 1983. Index, 393 pages. VSCL.
Creative Experiencing: A Philosophy of Freedom. By Charles Hartshorne. SUNY, 2012, 172 pages.
Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method. By Charles Hartshorne. S.C.M. Press, 1970, 337 pages.
Creativity in American Philosophy. By Charles Hartshorne. SUNY, 1985, 299 pages. VSCL!
The Mind of Charles Hartshorne: A Critical Examination. By Donald Wayne Viney and George W. Shields. Process Century Press, 2020, 584 pages. VSCL!
Reality as a Social Process: Studies in Metaphysics and Religion. By Charles Hartshorne. Free Press, 1953, 223 pages.
Hegel, Georg Wihelm Friedrich (1770-1831) Books
Heidegger, Martin
(1889-1976)
Books
History:
The Idea of History By R. G. Collingwood
History - Intellectual
See Also: Past, Present,
Future, Time,
Books
Horology
"Horology ("the study of time", related to Latin horologium from Greek ὡρολόγιον,
"instrument for telling the hour", from ὥρα hṓra "hour;
time" and
-o- interfix and
suffix -logy) is the study of the measurement of time. Clocks, watches, clockwork, sundials,
hourglasses, clepsydras, timers, time
recorders, marine
chronometers, and atomic
clocks are all examples of instruments used
to measure time.
In current usage, horology refers mainly to the study of mechanical time-keeping
devices, while chronometry more
broadly includes electronic devices that have largely supplanted mechanical
clocks for the best accuracy and precision in time-keeping." "The history
of timekeeping devices dates back to when ancient civilizations observed the
Sun and the Moon as they moved across the sky. The current sexagesimal system of
time measurement dates
to approximately 2000 BCE from
the Sumerians.
The ancient
Egyptians divided the day into two 12-hour periods,
and used obelisks to
track the sun. They developed water
clocks, later employed by the Chinese (after
they were introduced from Mesopotamia),
the Persians,
and the Greeks.
Other ancient timekeeping devices include the candle
clock, the timestick,
and the hourglass.
The escapement mechanism
is known to have been used in ancient Greece. The Chinese used a mercury-powered
escapement mechanism in their 10th century clocks, and medieval
Islamic inventions included clocks driven by gears and
weights. Mechanical
clocks that used the verge
escapement mechanism with a foliot timekeeper
were invented in Europe around the start of the 14th century. Portable clocks
were first built after the invention of the mainspring in
the early 15th century; the first pocketwatches appeared
during the 17th century, their accuracy improving after the balance
spring was added to the balance wheel. uring the Dutch
Golden Age, the polymath Christiaan
Huygens invented an accurate and practical pendulum
clock and the hairspring,
which led to the development of the watch.
His inventions increased the accuracy of timekeeping dramatically and became
widely used. Quartz
oscillators were invented in the 1930s, and atomic
clocks emerged after World War II."
Indra's Net: What Is It?
Characteristics: The Holographic Nature of the Universe, The
Interconnectedness of All Things, Lack of a Substantive Self, Non-Locality,
Innate Wisdom, Illusion or Maya, Universal Creativity, The Mirror Like Nature of
the Mind, A Metaphor for the Non-Dual Nature of All.
"Imagine a multidimensional spider's web in the early morning covered with dew drops. And every dew drop contains the reflection of all the other dew drops. And, in each reflected dew drop, the reflections of all the other dew drops in that reflection. And so ad infinitum. That is the Buddhist conception of the universe in an image." – Alan Watts, Middle Way lecture
Ingold, Tim (1948-) Books "Writing within the anthropological realm of phenomenology, Ingold explores the human as an organism which 'feels' its way through the world that "is itself in motion"; constantly creating and being changed by spaces and places as they are encountered."
The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill. By Tim Ingold. Routledge, 2011, 480 pages.
Interdependence,
Interconnectedness, Biodiversity, Web of Life Quotations, Sayings,
Poetry, Quips, Lore
James, William
(1842-1910)
Influential psychologist, philosopher, professor, lecturer, psychic
researcher, and pragmatist.
Pragmatism
A Key to Whitehead's Process and Reality
Key Writings. By Henri Bergson. Bloomsbury Academic, Revised Edition 2014, 536 pages.
VSCL.
Alfred Korzybski (1879-1950)
Books
Science and Sanity
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License,
© 2021 CCA 4.0
Compiled by Michael Garofalo, Green Way Research, Vancouver, Washington © 2014-2021 CCA 4.0
Logic, Modal Logic, Tense Logic
Logic for Philosophy. By Theodore Sider. Oxford University
Press, 2010, 304 pages.
Logic: Techniques of Formal Reasoning. By Donald Kalish and Richard Montague. Oxford University Press, 1980, 2nd Edition, New York, 520 pages. Index, bibliography, answers to questions. This was the textbook (1964 1st Edition) we used in our basic logic and advanced logic classes at California State University at Los Angeles from 1964-1968. I was a reader/grader for Professor Glathe's symbolic logic classes back then. VSCL.
Introduction to Logic. By Irving M. Copi and Carl Cohen. T&F India, Fifteenth Edition, 2019, 722 pages. VSCL.
Modal Deduction: An Introduction to Modal Logic. Independently published, 2018, 251 pages.
Modal Logic Deals with the systematic logical symbolization of the concepts of "necessary" and "possible." SEP
Modal Logic - Wikipedia
Modal Logic for Philosophers. By James W. Garson. Cambridge University Press, 2013, 2nd Edition, 506 pages. VSCL.
Modal Logics and Philosophy. By Rod Girle. McGill Queens University, 2010, 2nd Edition, 256 pages.
Logic Mike Garofalo's hypertext notebook
Modern Origins of Modal Logic SEP
An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic: From If to Is. By Graham Priest. Cambridge University Press, 2008, 2nd Revised Edition, 646 pages. VSCL
A New Introduction to Modal Logic. By M. J. Cresswell and G.E. Hughes. Routledge, 1996, 423 pages.
Temporal Logic: Tense or Temporal Logic. By Thomas Muller.
Temporal Logic: Papers on Time and Tense. By Arthur N. Prior. Edited by Per Hasle, Peter Ohrstrom, Toben Brauner, and Jack Copeland. Oxford University Press, 2nd Edition, 2003, 342 pages.
Temporal Logic: Deals with the systematic logical symbolization of the concepts of "past, present, and future." SEP
Temporal Logic: Time and Modality. By Arthur N. Prior. Oxford University Press, 1957, 160 pages.
P it ·was the case that (Past)
H it has always been the case that
F it will be the case that (Future)
G it is always going to be the case that
Bibliography: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
George Herbert Mead
(1863-1931)
The Philosophy of the Present. By George Herbert Mead, 1932. Prometheus, 2002, 202 pages. 1930 Lectures. VSCL.
"George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) had a powerful influence on the development of American pragmatism in the twentieth century. He also had a strong impact on the social sciences. This classic book represents Mead's philosophy of experience, so central to his outlook. The present as unique experience is the focus of this deep analysis of the basic structure of temporality and consciousness. Mead emphasizes the novel character of both the present and the past. Though science is predicated on the assumption that the present is predictable based on a thorough knowledge of the past, the experience of the present, says Mead, is an utterly unique moment comparable to no other, and when it is past the novel character of that unique experience is irrevocable. The emergence of novelty within the perceived rational order of reality is the crux of the problem that Mead explores. The present, in his words, is "the emergent event . . . something which is more than the processes that have led up to it and which by its change, continuance, or disappearance, adds to later passages a content they would not otherwise have possessed." The present as "the seat of reality" heavily conditions our retrospective view of the past as much as it helps to shape the future. The novelty of every present experience causes us to reconstruct our preceding experiences to make sense of the past, which is naturally assumed to be the main cause of what we presently experience. Our perspective on reality is thus relative to the conditioning of each new event and it changes continuously as the effects of the present shift our view of the past and future. This emphasis on the integrative, holistic nature of reality, in which everything past, present, and future is a condition of everything else, makes Mead's philosophy highly relevant to today's scientific picture of a quantum universe, where chance and probability play a role in the emergence of reality. Also of great interest is the way in which he extends his basic analysis of temporal-spatial reality to the emergence of mind and consciousness as a natural development of the evolutionary process. This stimulating and provocative work attests to John Dewey's praise of Mead as "the most original mind in philosophy in America" of his generation."
Mind, Self, and Society: The Definitive Edition. By George Herbert Mead. Originally published in 1934 by his students. Edited by Charles W. Morris. Annotated Edition by Daniel R. Huebner and Hans Joas. University of Chicago Press, 2015, index, bibliography, appendix, supplementary essays, notes, 515 pages. VSCL.
Meaning in Life and Why It Matters. By Susan Wolf. Princeton University Press, 2012, 162 pages.
Memory - Wikipedia
Memory - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Memory - Fuzzy-Trace Theory
Memory: Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting. By Lisa Genova. Harmony, 2021, 272 pages.
Memory: The Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. By Jerry W. Rudy. Sinaeur, 3rd Edition, 2020, 456 pages.
Memory: Memory. By Alan Baddeley, Michael W. Eysenck, and Michael C. Angerson. Routledge, 2020, 3rd Edition, 626 pages.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) Books
Metaphysics in
Chinese Philosophy Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Metaphysics of Experience: A Companion to Whitehead's Process and Reality.
By Elizabeth Kraus. Fordham University Press, 2018, 256 pages.
Kindle, VSCL.
Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind. By Peter
Godfrey-Smith. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020, 352 pages.
Months and Seasons
Quotations, Sayings, Poetry, Quips, Lore
Multiplicity
(Philosophy) Bergson's distinction between continuous
multiplicities and discrete multiplicities:
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differences in kind |
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differences in degree |
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divides only by changing in kind |
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divides without changing in kind |
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non-numerical - qualitative |
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numerical - quantitative |
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differences are virtual |
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differences are actual |
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continuous |
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discontinuous |
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qualitative discrimination |
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quantitative differentiation |
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succession |
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simultaneity |
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fusion |
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juxtaposition |
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organization |
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order |
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subjective - subject |
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objective - object |
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space |
Multiverse - Wikipedia
Thomas Nail
Books Philosophy of Motion:
Being and Motion
Naturalism -
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Natural Theology
and Natural Religion - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Neighborhood, Family, Society, Culture, Civilization,
Education, Language Learning, Development
Nietzsche, Friedrich
(1844-1900) Books
Nothing and Nothingness: Toward an Apophatic Science. By Gustavo
Candia and Rodney Parrott. Nihilverse, 2020, 408 pages.
Nothing: In Praise of Nothing: An Exploration of Daoist Fundamental Ontology. By Ellen M. Chen. Xlibris, 2011, index, 250 pages. VSCL.
Nothing: Tao Te Ching, Chapter 40
Noting: Being and Nothingness. John Paul Sartre, 1943.
Nothing See Also Buddhism, Taoism
Now, the Present, Occurring Here and Now, Today,
Date-Place Existing Currently
Ontology
Wikipedia
Ontology SEP
Open Horizons Exploring
a Process Outlook on Life and a Way of Living in the World
Optimization: A Gentle Introduction to Optimization. By B. Guenin. Cambridge University, 2014, 279 pages.
The Order of Time. By Carlo Rovelli. Riverhead, 2018, index,
notes, 240 pages.
VSCL.
Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality Presented in Four Paths, Twenty-Six Themes, and Two Questions
By Matthew Fox,
2000
Organizations
or Institutions Supporting Research and Development in Process PhilosophyCenter for Open and Relational Theology
Center for Process Studies, Claremont, California Founded in 1973 at the Claremont Graduate School of Theology.
Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, San Gabriel Valley, California
Institute for Ecological Organization
Open Horizons Exploring a Process Outlook on Life and a Way of Living in the World
See Also: Present, Future, Time, History, Past, Memory
Patterns in Nature: Why the Natural World Looks the Way It Does. By
Philip Ball. University of Chicago, 2016, 288 pages.
Peirce, Charles Sanders
(1839-1914)
Books
Pragmatism
Perice: Philosophical Writings of Peirce. By Charles S. Perice. Edited by Justus Buchler. Dover, 2011, 416 pages. VSCL!
Periodicity,
Seasonality,
Recurrence,
Pattern
Self-Determination Theory: Basic Psychological Needs in Motivation, Development, and Wellness. By Richard M. Ryan and Edward L. Deci. Guilford Press, 2018, 756 pages.
Biological Individuals - Stanford
Philosophy in the Flesh : The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought.
Soma-Aesthetics, Somatics Five Senses
See Also: Present, Time, History, Past, Persons, Future, Causality, Humans
The shapes or patterns of objects (triangles, circles, dots, blue hot dogs) in these three images are touching each other, connected together spatially, adjacent, linked up, interconnected. They are chained together causally, somehow, empirically or through our ongoing mental capacities and beliefs. At each juncture, like a photon jolt-jump, new beings are created, splitting off from the previous, emerging, two out of one DNA replication.
If the center of the square is thought of as an immanent future, a terminal illness experience or the moment of one's death, then complete convergence into nothingness is conceivable, but better illustrated if the center triangle or circle was black. Indeed, when dying, one's personal future options decrease, motions decrease, actions decrease, matters come to an end point.
If the person is healthy and safe, the future, to me, implies an openness, expansion, learning/experiencing more and remembering more, divergence, novelty. Therefore, I think of the center of the square as representing the Present, and then all the other objects represent considerations, stories, anticipations, plans for, estimates, projections of Future possibilities.
The images also imply/suggest a kind of focusing, bringing attention to a single matter or sensation, intellectually isolating it from the matrix of experience, devoting/committing ourselves to an objective (the future as a target?). The Many details of the artworks are organized to effect a kind of pointing to One detail, the center of our attention right now, what we need to focus on, pointing it out. Ostensive pointing and naming are foundation stones of the early education of any child.
The first image, a variation of the Shri Yantra, is used in Hinduism and Tantra as a focus symbol for meditation. Art can have powerful effects on our consciousness, sometimes facilitating a transformation of our viewpoints.
The images imply looking into a tunnel, or better yet a Cornucopia Horn of Plenty. The Cornucopia is small at one end and large at the other end. The Cornucopia is overflowing with fruit, flowers, nuts, vegetables and other edible products, and is an ancient symbol of abundance and nourishment. It represents the Ten Thousand Things (Somethings, Ziran) emerging from other Somethings or Nothing. We feel a sense of magic and wonder in this unending productivity. Think of the baskets of bread and fishes that never emptied with which Jesus fed a large crowd.
Philosophers of Process. Edited by Douglas Browning and William T.
Myers. Fordham University Press, 1998, 449 pages. VSCL.
Philosophers Associated with Process Philosophy
Heraclitus (circa
535-475 BCE)
Buddhist Scriptures, Pali Canon, Anicca Impermanence 29 BCE Gautama Buddha (circa 510 BCE)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716)
Georg W. H. Hegel (1770-1831)
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
Karl Marx (1818-1883)
Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914)
William James (1842-1910)
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
C. Lloyd Morgan (1852-1936)
John Dewey (1959-1952)
Samuel Alexander (1859-1938)
Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
Charles Hartshorne (1897-2000)
Andrew Paul Ushenko (1900-1956)
Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995)
John B. Cobb (1925-)
David Ray Griffin
(1939-)
Robert M. Pirsig Books Quality
Poetry: 210 Sacred
Poems
Poetry: Poetry by Michael P. Garofalo
Practical Reason
"Practical reason, which determines whether a prospective
course of action is worth pursuing; and productive or technical reason, which
attempts to find the best means for a given end.
In the current circumstances R, we should perform
action A, to achieve New Circumstances S, which will realize some goal G, which
will promote some value V. Practical reasoning is
used in arguments, but also in explanations used to draw conclusions about an
agent's goals, motives or intentions, based on reports of what the agent said or
did."
Pragmatism - American Philosophy
Present
See Also: Future, Time, History, Past, Persons, Memory
Present, Now, Today, Actual Wikipedia
"Buddhism and many of its associated paradigms emphasize the importance of living in the present moment — being fully aware of what is happening, and not dwelling on the past or worrying about the future. This does not mean that they encourage hedonism, but merely that constant focus on one's current position in space and time (rather than future considerations, or past reminiscence) will aid one in relieving suffering. They teach that those who live in the present moment are the happiest. A number of meditative techniques aim to help the practitioner live in the present moment."
Presentism Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
How to Live in the Present Moment: 35 Exercises and Tools
The Philosophy of the Present. By George Herbert Mead, 1932. Prometheus, 2002, index, 202 pages. 1930 Lectures. VSCL.
Prigogine, Ilya (1917-2003) Physical chemist and Nobel laureate noted for his work on dissipative structures, complex systems, and irreversibility.
Prigogine: The End of Certainty: Time, Chaos, and the New Laws of Nature. by Illya Prigogine. Free Press, 1997, 240 pages. VSCL.
Prigogine: Order Out of Chaos. By Illya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers. Bantam, 1984, 349 pages. VSCL.
Prigogine: From Being to Becoming: Time and Complexity in the Physical Sciences. By Illya Prigogine. W.H.Freeman, 1981, 272 pages.
Prior, Arthur Norman (1914-1969) Modal logic pioneer
Time and Modality. By Arthur N. Prior. Oxford University Press, 1957, 160 pages.
Papers on Time and Tense. By Arthur N. Prior. Edited by Per Hasle, Peter Ohrstrom, Torben Brauner, and Jack Copeland. Oxford University Press, 2nd Edition, 2003, 342 pages.
Process Philosophy
Process and Reality. By Alfred North Whitehead. Gifford Lectures delivered in the University of
Edinburgh during the Session 1927-1928.
Published in 1929. New York, Free Press, 1978. Corrected Edition
(1978) by David Ray Griffin and Donald W. Sherburne. Index (pp.355-387),
editor's notes (pp.391-413), paperbound, 413 pages. VSCL. This
classic work is abbreviated: PR, p. #.
Process Metaphysics: An Introduction to Process Philosophy.
Process Philosophy: A Survey of Basic Issues. By Nicholas Rescher.
University of Pittsburgh, 2000, 152 pages. VSCL.
Process Philosophy (Becoming, Emergence, Creativity)
-
Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
Process Philosophy:
Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology. Edited
by Daniel J. Nicholson and John Dupre. Oxford University Press, 2018, 416
pages.
Process Philosophy for Everyone. Facebook Group, 2021.
Process Philosophy: Google Scholar
Process
Philosophy: Good Reads Books
Process Philosophy:
University
Graduate Programs in Process Philosophy
Process Philosophy - Internet
Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Process Philosophy:
The Oxford Handbook of Process Philosophy and Organization Studies. By
Jenny Helin, Tor Hernes, Daniel Hjorth, and Robin Holt. Oxford University
Press, 2016, 656 pages.
Process Philosophy:
Philosophers of Process. Edited by Douglas Browning and William T.
Myers. Fordham University Press, 1998, 449 pages. VSCL.
Process
Philosophy - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Process Philosophy:
Society for
the Study of Process Philosophies Fordham University
Many resources and links.
Process Philosophy -
Wikipedia
Process Philosophy: A Synthesis. By Bernard Nootebloom. Anthem
Press, 2021, 175 pages.
Process Philosophy and Gardening
Cloud Hands Blog by Michael
Garofalo since 2005.
Pulling Onions
Process-Relational Philosophy: An Introduction to Alfred North Whitehead.
By C. Robert Mesle. Templeton Press, 2008, index, suggested reading, 123 pages.
An exposition supportive of the process philosopher's viewpoints. One
appeal in support of various process theories/systems/suggestions is our
own living experience as organic beings, living human beings, and our
experiences in and of temporal phenomena, volitions, the ongoing flow of time
itself, freedom, consciousness of, thinking. VSCL.
Process Theology SEE Theology - Process
Philosophy
Psychology: The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World. By Iain McGilchrist. Yale University, 2019, 616 pages. VSCL!
Psychology: Thinking Fast and Slow. By Daniel Kahneman. Farrar Strauss, 2011, 512 pages. VSCL!
Pulling Onions Over
1,038 Sayings, Observations, Quips, Asides, Suggestions, Insights ... By Michael
P. Garofalo
Quotations: Process Philosophy Quotations I
Quotations II
Recurrence,
Seasonality,
Periodicity
Religion, Theology,
Process Philosophy
The Routledge Handbook of Religious Naturalism. Edited by Donald A. Crosby and Jerome A. Stone. Routledge, 2020, 438 pages.
Natural Theology and Natural Religion - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Nature Is Enough: Religious Naturalism and the Meaning of Life. By Loyal Rue. SUNY, 2012, 176 pages.
The Thou of Nature: Religious Naturalism and Reverence for Sentient Life. By Donald A. Crosby. SUNY, 2013, 182 pages.
See Also Robert S. Corrington Theology
Nature Worship - Wikipedia
Naturalism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Reproduction - Wikipedia
Reproduction and Replication - Stanford
Reproduction - Sexual - Wikipedia
Reproduction: DNA Replication
Reproduction: Parenthood and Procreation - Stanford
Reproduction: Gestation - Wikipedia
Repetition, Routine, Constancy, Uniformity, Regularity, Sameness, Repetition of Familiars,
Rescher, Nicholas (1928-) Books
Process Philosophy: A Survey of Basic Issues. By Nicholas Rescher. University of Pittsburgh, 2000, 152 pages. VSCL.
Process Metaphysics: An Introduction to Process Philosophy.
Luck: The Brilliant Randomness of Everyday Life. By Nicholas Rescher. University of Pittsburg, 2001, 256 pages.
A System of Pragmatic Idealism, Volume I: Human Knowledge in Idealistic Perspective. By Nicholas Rescher. New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1992, Index, 335 pages. VSCL.
A System of Pragmatic Idealism, Volume II: The Validity of Values. A Normative Theory of Evaluative Rationality. By Nicholas Rescher. New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1993, Index, Bibliography, 264 pages. VSCL.
A System of Pragmatic Idealism, Volume III: Metaphilosophical Inquiries. By Nicholas Rescher. New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1994, Index, 269 pages. VSCL.
Aporetics: Rational Deliberation in the Face of Inconsistency. By Nicholas Rescher. University of Pittsburg, 2009, 176 pages.
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Seasonality,
Periodicity,
Recurrence
SEP Stanford Encyclopedia
of Philosophy
Simplicity, Frugality,
Conservation
Quotations, Sayings, Poetry, Quips, Lore
Society, Family, Neighborhood, Culture, Civilization, Education, Language
Learning, Development
Social Psychology - Wikipedia "
Social psychology is the scientific study of how the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined, and implied presence of others, 'imagined' and 'implied presences' referring to the internalized social norms that humans are influenced by even when they are alone." "Social psychology explores the interplay between individual minds and the social world and uses experimental methods to study many aspects of the human experience. The topics we study include prejudice and stereotyping, person perception, social norms, conflict resolution, biases in judgment, affective processes, cultural diversity in thinking, morality, helping and aggression, identity and the self, attitudes and persuasion, and motivation."Society: Mind, Self, and Society: The Definitive Edition. By George Herbert Mead.
Society: Reality as a Social Process: Studies in Metaphysics and Religion. By Charles Hartshorne. Free Press, 1953, 223 pages.
Society - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Society - Wikipedia
See Also: Persons Past Future Creativity Ethics
Space, Time and Diety. By S. Alexander. 1919. Macmillan,
1966.
Speculative: Uses and
Meanings
Speculative Philosophy, Metaphysics, Schematic Theories, Grand Design,
Overarching Reasons
Spinoza, Baruch
(1632-1677)
Spinoza: Is Spinoza a Process Theologist?
Spontaneity Spontaneous, Casualness, Inspired, Creative,
Books, Free, Unpremeditated, Easy, Impulsive, Unscheduled, Unplanned,
Suddenly
Spontaneity: The Aesthetics of Imperfection in Music and the Arts: Spontaneity, Flaws and the Unfinished. Edited by Andy Hamilton, and Lara Pearseon. Bloomsbury Academic, 2020, 416 pages.
Spontaneity: Kant's Theory of Judgment
Spontaneity: The Oxford Handbook of Spontaneous Thought: Mind-Wandering, Creativity, and Dreaming. Edited by Kieran C. R. Fox and Kalina Christoff. Oxford University Press, 2018, 632 pages.
Spontaneity: The Potent Self: A Study of Spontaneity and Compulsion. By Moshe Feldenkrais. North Atlantic, 2002, 288 pages.
Spontaneity - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Spontaneity: Spontaneous Processes
Spontaneity: Trying Not to Try: Ancient China, Modern Science, and the Power of Spontaneity. By Edward Singerland. Crown, 2015, 304 pages.
Spontaneity: The Art of Play: Helping Adults Reclaim Imagination and Spontaneity. By Adam Blatner and Alee Bratner. Brunner Mazel, 1997, 208 pages.
Spontaneity: The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire: Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence. By Deepak Chopra. Harmony, 2004, 304 pages.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy SEP
Tao Te
Ching (81 Chapters). Compiled and indexed by Michael P. Garofalo.
Taoism - Ripening
Peaches by Michael P. Garofalo
Teilhard de Chardin,
Pierre (1881-1955)
The Phenomenon of Man. By Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1955. Harper Collins, 2008, 320 pages.
The Phenomenon of Man - Wikipedia
Temporality Wikipedia
Theology - Process Philosophy
Theology - Atheism - Views of Michael P. Garofalo
Theology:
The Becoming of God: Process Theology, Philosophy, and Multireligious Engagement.
By Roland Faber. Cascade Books, 2017, 256 pages.
Theology: Buddhism
Theology: Daoism,
Taoism, Chan
Theology:
The God Delusion. By Richard Dawkins. Houghton Mifflin, 2006,
406 pages. VSCL!
Theology: Neo-Pagan
Religions, Druidry, Wicca
Theology:
Outgrowing God: A Beginner's Guide. By Richard Dawkins. Bantam,
2014, 304 pages. VSCL!
Theology - Process
Theism Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Theology:
Process Theology
Theology:
Process Theology: An Introductory Exposition. By John B. Cobb Jr., and
David Ray Griffin. Westminster Press, 1976, 192 pages. Index and two
appendices. Appendix B is a Guide to the Literature in 1976. VSCL.
Theology:
Process Theism
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Theology -
Process Theology: A Basic Introduction. By C. Robert Mesle.
Chalice Press, 1993, 148 pages.
Theology:
Pierre
Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955)
Theology:
Reenchantment Without Supernaturalism: A Process Philosophy of Religion.
By David Ray Griffin. Cornell University Press, 2000, 440 pages.
VSCL!
Theology:
Religions in the Making: Whitehead and the Wisdom Traditions
of the World. By John C. Cobb. Cascade Books, 2012, 252
pages.
Thermodynamics,
Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics,
Entropy,
Asymmetry,
Arrow of Time,
Irreversibility
See Also: Present, Future, History, Past, Causality
Being and Time. By Martin Heidegger, 1927. Harper and Row, 1962, 586 pages.
A Brief History of Time. By Stephen Hawking. Bantam, 2011, 256 pages.
A Critical Introduction to the Metaphysics of Time. By Benjamin L. Curtis and Jon Robson. Bloomsbury, 2016, 256 pages.
The End of Certainty: Time, Chaos, and the New Laws of Nature. by Illya Prigogine. Free Press, 1997, 240 pages.
Eternalism: Philosophy of Time
Existential and Ontological Dimensions of Time in Heidegger and Dogen. By Steven Heine. SUNY, 1985, 212 pages.
Experience and Perception of Time Stanford EP
Felt Time: The Psychology of How We Perceive Time. By Marc Wittmann. Translated by Erik Butler. MIT Press, 2016, 186 pages.
Horology The study of time measurement devices
Images of Time: An Essay on Temporal Representation. By Robin Le Roidevin. Oxford University Press, 2007, 192 pages.
The Network of Time: Understanding Time and Reality through Philosophy, History, and Physics. By Alon Halpern. 2020, 335 pages.
The Order of Time. By Carlo Rovelli. Riverhead, 2018, index, notes, 240 pages. VSCL.
Psychology of Time. Edited by Simon Grondin. Emerald Publishing, 2008, 200 pages.
Phenomenology and Time-Consciousness Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Philosophy of Space and Time Wikipedia
Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Temporal Experience. Edited by Ian Phillips. Routledge, 2019, 384 pages.
Sacred Time: Embracing an Intentional Way of Life. By Christine Valters Paintner. Sorin Books, 2021, 160 pages.
The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time: A Proposal in Natural Philosophy. By Robert Mangabeira Unger and Lee Simon. Cambridge University Press, 2014, 566 pages.
Temporal Consciousness Stanford EP Books
Tense or Temporal Logic. By Thomas Muller.
Time Stanford EP
Time Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Time and the Art of Living. By Robert Grudin. Mariner Books, 1997, 208 pages. VSCL.
Time Measurement Through the Ages
Time: Nature and Gardening Quotations, Sayings, Poetry, Quips, Lore
Time Perception - Wikipedia
Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe. By Brian Greene. Vintage, 2021, 448 pages.
Time Management
We use these tools (clocks/calendars/lists) to organize our daily lives for
ourselves and for others in our lived environment.
Using these tools takes some time, but their effective use can save a lot of
time, prevent troubles, and guide you to success.
We have learned how to use these practical working tools in our childhood years
at home and in school.
Visual cues for organizing our activities and actualizing our plans.
A documentation process for recording our behavior (to be used later as
past information), as well as documenting our likely future actions.
The "Day": the standard time period unit for actual occurrences, 24 hours in a
day, 7 days in a week, 30 days in a month, what we think a day is, night and
daylight in a day, what day is it?, weekday, scalable or divisible within
practical limits, a social/personal container for events.
A Day is that which is real and actual occurring during a specified 24 hour
period.
A Day is an quasi-arbitrary standard for tracking and recording changing
occurrences.
A Day is related to implications of the Earth-Sun rotation patterns of
daylight/night and the seasons, and Day-Year are intertwined experientially and
mathematically.
We accept clocks and calendars as essential to organized social life.
We use social calendars to specify a Day.
A Day is part of a monthly grid matrix consisting of around 30 Days,
sequentially ordered from 1 to 30.
A Day is a useful measurement tool, and a cornerstone of
logbooks/journals/records/observations.
Daily life, agriculture, science, and technology all require daily coordination
using a commonly accepted calendar.
When the specified 24 hour period ends, then a new day begins, and we consider a
few of the events/occurrences in the previous 24 hours period as
being/gone/lapsed into the past and tainted with irrevocability, our remembering
decreasing of few details of descriptive information or completely forgetting
about yesterdays events, or being of trivial historical interest of low value.
We may indeed be alive for this specified Day, but can remember fewer and fewer
of the details of even just this specified Day both during that Day and when the
Day ends. And, as yesterDays accumulate our memories of a specified Day
diminish, deteriorate, disappear, and die.
Feeling that natural organic flow (awaken, daylight, eat, work, socialize, etc., rest, sleep, night (Pattern 1); repeated 365 times through four seasons; repeated ... Pattern 1, Pattern 1, Pattern 1 ... Becomes a habit, if your lucky to live well.
Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones.
By James Clear. Avery, 2018, 320 pages. VSCL.
Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind. By Jocelyn K. Glei. Amazon, 2013, 253 pages.
Time and the Art of Living. By Robert Grudin. Mariner Books, 1997, 208 pages. VSCL.
Tools for Navigating Your Inner Universe by Paul Nelson
Travels and Walking
in the Northwestern United States
Tzu-jan or Ziran
自然
"Utterly simple, utterly themselves, and utterly sufficient: the ten thousand
things, understood in full cosmological/ontological depths were know as
tzu-jan. Literally meaning "self-so" or "the of-itself,"
tzu-jan is a near synonym for Tao or ch'i. But it is
best translated as "occurrence appearing of itself," for it emphasizes the
particularity and self-sufficiency, the thusness, of the ten thousand things
burgeoning forth spontaneously from the generative source (Presence from
Absence), each according to its own nature, independent and self-sufficient,
each dying and returning to the process of change, only to reappear in another
self generating form. ...Tzu-jan as teacher, then, is the ten thousand things
mirrored in all their clarity, without the names we give the, names that
distance them from us. Indeed to see thing, to mirror them perfectly,
requires that we forget the names of things, forget names and ideas that package
reality in our human constructions. Then things seen go mirror-deep inside
consciousness and simply vanish there, eluding us perfectly as they become us,
no self anymore."
- David Hinton, Chan Root, p.65
"Ziran, (Chinese: “spontaneity,” or “naturalness”; literally, “self-so-ing,” or
“so of itself”) Wade-Giles
romanization tzu-jan, in Chinese
philosophy, and particularly among the 4th- and 3rd-century BCE philosophers
of early Daoism (daojia),
the natural state of the constantly unfolding universe and of all things within
it when both are allowed to develop in accord with the Cosmic Way (Dao).
Chinese cosmologies present a vision of a dynamic universe
that is incessantly being generated. While the course it will take cannot be
fully anticipated, it emerges and operates according to a continuous process.
Human beings, however, impose their own order on reality, differentiating it
by creating language and names for individual things, by developing rituals that
order human life, and by creating government, which channels the energy of the
people toward particular ends. Such actions distance people from the generative
process of which they are a part. Instead, humans should attune themselves to
the constant transformations of the Way. They may accomplish this by cultivating an
openness toward spontaneity (ziran), which characterizes not only the constantly
unfolding universe but the Dao itself."
Ziran - Britannica Encyclopedia
"There is always something we don't know. This is well
illustrated by the elusive qualities of energy in physics: We cannot really
define energy, but we can work with it, and this is the case with the Tao. The
Tao works by itself. Its nature is to be, as is said in Chinese, tzu-jan,
that which is "of itself," "by itself," or "itself so." Tzu-jan is almost
what we mean when we say that something is automatic, or that something happens
automatically.
- Alan Watts, What is Tao
“Tzu-jan” (自然) is “nature” as a noun, or “natural” as an adjective in Chinese. In Tao Te Ching, it says “Tao follows the (laws of) nature” (道法自然). In other words, “nature” is the nutshell of Tao."
Robert
Mangabeira Unger (1947-)
UTube videos about Alfred North Whitehead (1870-1947).
Videos of lectures or conversations.
VWay: Concrete Poetry and
Text Art by Mike Garofalo
Alan Watts
(1915-1973)
Books
Paul Weiss
(1901-2002)
Books
Whitehead, Alfred North (1861-1947)
Whitehead, Alfred North (1861-1947)
Wikipedia
Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy
Whitehead, Alfred North (1870-1947) on UTube. Videos of lectures or conversations about Whitehead's thought.
Whitehead, Alfred North.
The Concept of Nature, 1920. Dover, 2013, 101 pages. VSCL.
Whitehead, Alfred North.
Science and the Modern World, 1926. Kindle Reprint Version, 2021, 218 pages.
VSCL.
Whitehead, Alfred North.
Process and Reality, 1927. Gifford Lectures delivered in the University of
Edinburgh during the Session 1927-1928.
Published in 1929. Corrected Edition
(1978) by David Ray Griffin and Donald W. Sherburne.
New York, Free Press, 1978.
Index (pp.355-387),
editor's notes (pp.391-413), paperbound, 413 pages. VSCL: I own both the
paperback copy and the eBook Kindle copy.
Whitehead, Alfred North.
Adventures of Ideas, 1933. Free Press, 1967, Index, 307 pages. VSCL.
Whitehead, Alfred North.
Modes of Thought, 1938. Free Press, 1968, Index, 179 pages. VSCL.
"Those who find Process and Reality excessively forbidding can gain a
very fair impression of the best of the later Whitehead by going from Science
and the Modern World to his last books, Adventures in Ideas and
Modes of Thought."
- Dorthy M. Emmet, Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Volume 8, p. 293
[I read Whitehead along with good commentaries. That helped familiarize
myself with the language and concepts of process thought, e.g., Mesle, Cobb,
Rescher, Kraus, Hartshorne, Sherwood.]
Whitehead: Depths As Yet Unspoken: Whiteheadian Excursions in Mysticism, Multiplicity, and Divinity. By Roland Faber. Edited by Andrew M. Davis. Pickwick, 2020, 318 pages.
Whitehead:
An Interpretation of Whitehead's Metaphysics. By William A. Christian.
Praegar, 1977, (1959), 419 pages.
Whitehead - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Whitehead:
A Key to Whitehead's Process and Reality
Whitehead:
The Metaphysics of Experience: A Companion to Whitehead's Process and Reality.
By Elizabeth Kraus. Fordham University Press, 2018, 256 pages.
Kindle, VSCL.
Whitehead:
Physics of the World-Soul: Alfrted North Whitehead's Adventure in Cosmology.
By Matthew David Segall. SacraSage Press, 2021, 178 pages.
Whitehead:
Process-Relational Philosophy: An Introduction to Alfred North Whitehead.
By C. Robert Mesle. Templeton Press, index, suggested reading, 123 pages. VSCL.
Whitehead:
Process Philosophy: A Survey of Basic Issues. By Nicholas Rescher.
University of Pittsburgh, 2000, 152 pages.
Whitehead:
Process Metaphysics: An Introduction to Process Philosophy.
Whitehead:
Process Philosophy and Political Liberalism: Rawls, Whitehead, Hartshorne.
By Daniel A. Dombrowski. Edinburgh University Press, 2019, 224 pages.
Whitehead:
Reading Process and Reality. 20 part video series from Open Horizons.
Whitehead:
What is Process Theology? An Introduction to the Thought of Alfred North
Whitehead, How it is being Applied to Christian Thought Today. By Robert
B. Mllert. Paulist Press, 1975, 141 pages.
Whitehead:
Whitehead's Metaphysics: An Introductory Exposition. By Ivor Leclerc.
Unwin Hyman, 1958, 350 pages.
Whitehead:
Stubborn Fact and Creative Advance: An Introduction to the Metaphysics of
Alfred North Whitehead. By Thomas E. Hosinski. Roman and
Littlefield, 1993, 288 pages.
Whitehead:
Thinking with Whitehead: A Free and Wild Creation of Concepts. By
Isabelle Stengers. Translated by Michael Chase. Foreword by Bruno
Latour. Harvard University Press, 2014, 552 pages.
Whitehead:
Whitehead and Bradley: A Comparative Analysis. By Leemon B. McHenry.
SUNY, 1992, PDF Format.
Whitehead:
Whitehead and Philosophy of Education: The Seamless Coat of Learning.
By Malcolm D. Evans. Rodopi, 1998, 125 pages.
Whitehead: Whitehead Research
Project.
Whitehead's
Idea of God. By Jay McDaniel.
Whitehead's Philosophy of Organism. By Dorothy Emmett, 1932, 1966, PDF
format.
Whitehead Word Book: A Glossary with Alphabetical Index to Technical Terms in
Process and Reality. By John B. Cobb, Jr.. Process Century
Press, 2nd Edition, 2015, 102 pages. Kindle, $3.00, VSCL!
Willpower Quotations, Sayings, Wisdom, Philosophy, Reflections. Creating a specific future state by making actual changes to our behaviors, actions, and thoughts with the hope/anticipation that the desired state will become a reality in the future.
Colin Wilson
(1931-2013)
Books
XWay: Concrete Poetry and
Text Art by Mike Garofalo
YWay: Concrete Poetry and Text Art by Mike Garofalo
Bibliography: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Ziran or Tzu-jan 自然
Ziran or Tzu-jan
The
natural course of development, without undue negative influences.
Respect
for the natural and ongoing evolution of others.
The ordinary and
expected growth and flourishing of other beings-things, without unnatural
alteration.
Developing your own
point of view, creating yourself with words and deeds.
Discovering and
harnessing the power of the "normal" course of events, and acting with a bit of a Wu Wei
attitude.
How beings/things
just are, the Way they are, how they are given to us, how their words or actions
are commonly viewed.
Acceptance of who
you are, as is, valuing your contributions, and worthy of your freedom to choose
and act accordingly.
Understanding the
basics of developmental psychology and medicine.
Having a respect
for spontaneity, freedom, self-determination, and courage.
Wondering about
as-it-isness, just-so-ness, byitself-so-ness, left-to-itself-ness,
oneself-correcting-yes-ness, its-uniqueness?
- Michael P. Garofalo's Interpretations,
Pulling Onions
"Ziran is a key concept in Daoism that literally means "of its own; by itself" and thus "naturally; natural; spontaneously; freely; in the course of events; of course; doubtlessly". This Chinese word is a two-character compound of zi (自) "nose; self; oneself; from; since" and ran (然) "right; correct; so; yes", which is used as a -ran suffix marking adjectives or adverbs (roughly corresponding to English -ly). In Chinese culture, the nose (or zi) is a common metaphor for a person's point of view."
D. T. Suzuki, in a brief article penned in 1959, makes the suggestion of ziran as an aesthetic of action: "Living is an act of creativity demonstrating itself. Creativity is objectively seen as necessity, but from the inner point of view of Emptiness it is 'just-so-ness,' (ziran). It literally means 'byitself-so-ness,' implying more inner meaning than 'spontaneity' or 'naturalness'".
According to Buddhadasa Bhikkhu, tathātā is merely the way things are, the truth of all things: "When tathātā is seen, the three characteristics of anicca [impermanence], dukkha [suffering], and anatta [not-self] are seen, sunnata [emptiness] is seen, and idappaccayata [specific conditionality] is seen. Tathātā is the summary of them all -- merely thus, only thus, not-otherness."[7]
The word 'ziran' first occurs in the Daodejing (17,
23, 25, 51) and refers to the structure of Dao,
which cannot be referred back to anything else. It is generally accepted that
the philosopher Laozi,
author of the Daodejing, coined the term. Ziran is a central concept of Daoism,
closely tied to the practice of wuwei,
detached or effortless action. Ziran refers to a state of "as-it-isness," the
most important quality for anyone following Daoist beliefs. To become nearer to
a state of ziran, one must become separate from unnatural influences and return
to an entirely natural, spontaneous state. Ziran is related to developing an
"altered sense of human nature and of nature per se". When it comes to
sensibility of Taoism, the moral import can be most found in ziran."
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Notes, Comments, Leads
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Pulling Onions By Michael P. Garofalo. Over 1,038 One-Line Sayings, Observations, Quips, Asides, Wonderings, Suggestions, Insights. Lots of gardening related contexts.
A or B where "or" means either 1) A and B, or A without B, or B without A, A and/or B, inclusive sense of "or", open; 2) A or B, If A then not B and If B then not A, exclusive sense of "or", closed.
Necessary causes + Supporting-Component Factors + Context = Sufficient causes
"Rothman defined a sufficient cause as "...a complete causal mechanism" that "inevitably produces disease." Consequently, a "sufficient cause" is not a single factor, but a minimum set of factors and circumstances that, if present in a given individual, will produce the disease." "In other words, if one thing is a necessary cause of another, then that means that the outcome can never happen without the cause. If something is a sufficient cause, then every time it happens the outcome will follow. The outcome always follows the cause."Alternatives
Growing Block
Universe The past and present exist, but the future does not.
C.D.Broad
Eternalism
The past, present and future all exist.
Presentism
Only the present exists, the past and future do not exit.
"We need to learn to see our physical form as a river. Our
body is not a static thing─it changes all the time. It is very important
to see our physical form as something impermanent, as a river that is constantly
changing. Every cell in our body is a drop of water in that river.
Birth and death are happening continuously, in every moment of our daily lives.
We must live every moment with death and life present at the same time.
Both death and life are happening at every instant in the river of our physical
body. We should train ourselves in this vision of impermanence."
- Thich Nhat Hanh, You Are Here, 2001, p. 27
In many ways Changes, cycles of birth and death, being a living-moving-acting being ... is what creates endurance, persistence, homeostasis, staying alive. When Change stops, then we die. Impermanence is indicative of being alive, existing, being real.
"Impermanence (Pali anicca, Sanskrit anitya) means that all things are in a constant state of flux. Buddhism states that all physical and mental events come into being and dissolve. Human life embodies this flux in the aging process and the cycle of repeated birth and death (Samsara); nothing lasts, and everything decays. This is applicable to all beings and their environs, including beings who are reborn in deva (god) and naraka (hell) realms.[13][14] This is in contrast to nirvana, the reality that is nicca, or knows no change, decay or death."
"
Friedrich Nietzsche wrote that Heraclitus "will remain eternally right with his assertion that being is an empty fiction". Nietzsche developed the vision of a chaotic world in perpetual change and becoming. The state of becoming does not produce fixed entities, such as being, subject, object, substance, thing. These false concepts are the necessary mistakes which consciousness and language employ in order to interpret the chaos of the state of becoming. The mistake of Greek philosophers was to falsify the testimony of the senses and negate the evidence of the state of becoming. By postulating being as the underlying reality of the world, they constructed a comfortable and reassuring "after-world" where the horror of the process of becoming was forgotten, and the empty abstractions of reason appeared as eternal entities."
"We can now sum up this discussion of organisms, order, societies, nexus.
The aim of the philosophy of organism is to express a coherent cosmology based
on the notions of: 'system', 'process', 'creative advance into novelty', 'res
vera' (in Descartes sense), 'stubborn fact', 'individual unity of
experience', 'feeling', 'time as perpetual perishing', 'endurance as
re-creation', 'purpose', 'universals as forms of definiteness', 'particulars─rēs
verae─as ultimate agents of stubborn fact'.
- A. N. Whitehead, Process and Reality, p. 128
Yes, what Whitehead wrote about is a suggested schema for interpreting and explaining a variety of topics or notions. The schema provides provisional definitions and interpretations, a coherent cosmology, for these fundamental notions. In the end, the Organism Process Schema might be robust enough to satisfy our metaphysical yearnings, as well as point to the variety of stubborn facts of Reality. Use what we say, 'x' or "x" (what a schema says about some topic), e.g., 'creative advance into novelty', to point to the facts, to be confirmed by our actual occurring (experienced and experiencing) creative advance into novelty. We intend that our schema should for sound, good, valuable, and practical reasons point to actual Reality.
"We can now sum up this discussion of organisms, order, societies, nexus. The aim of the philosophy of organism is to express a coherent cosmology based on the notions of: system, process, creative advance into novelty, res ver (in Descartes sense), stubborn fact, individual unity of experience, feeling, time as perpetual perishing, endurance as re-creation, purpose, universals as forms of definiteness, particulars─rēs verae─as ultimate agents of stubborn fact."
"I hold that we should try to put definite questions and consider carefully the
thinkable definite answers, putting these answers into exhaustive set of
mutually exclusive doctrines, and then look for the least counter-intuitive one,
all things considered. This attempt seems to me to essentially define
metaphysics as a rational discipline."
- Charles Hartshorne, Insights and Oversights, p.354
"Speculative Philosophy is the endeavor to frame a coherent, logical, necessary
system of general ideas in terms of which every element of our experience can be
interpreted. By this notion of 'interpretation' I mean that everything of
which we are conscious, as enjoyed, perceived, willed, or thought, shall have
the character of a particular instance of the general scheme. Thus, the
philosophical scheme should be coherent, logical, and in respect to its
interpretation, applicable and adequate. Here 'applicable' means that some
items of experience are thus interpretable, and 'adequate' means that there are
no items incapable of such interpretation."
- A. N. Whitehead, Process and Reality, p. 3
"In philosophy, temporality is traditionally the linear progression of past, present, and future. However, some modern-century philosophers have interpreted temporality in ways other than this linear manner. Examples would be McTaggart's The Unreality of Time, Husserl's analysis of internal time consciousness, Martin Heidegger's Being and Time (1927), George Herbert Mead's Philosophy of the Present (1932), and Jacques Derrida's criticisms of Husserl's analysis, as well as Nietzsche's eternal return of the same, though this latter pertains more to historicity, to which temporality gives rise. In social sciences, temporality is also studied with respect to human's perception of time and the social organization of time. The perception of time undergoes significant change in the three hundred years between the Middle Ages and Modernity."
Twenty Key Ideas in the Process Worldview
By Jay McDaniel
"1. Process: The universe is an ongoing process of development and change, never
quite the same at any two moments. Every entity in the universe is best
understood as a process of becoming that emerges through its interactions with
others. The beings of the world are becomings.
2. Interconnectedness: The universe as a whole is a seamless web of
interconnected events, none of which can be completely separated from the
others. Everything is connected to everything else and contained in everything
else. As Buddhists put it, the universe is a network of inter-being.
3. Continuous Creativity: The universe exhibits a continuous creativity on the
basis of which new events come into existence over time which did not exist
beforehand. This continuous creativity is the ultimate reality of the universe.
Everywhere we look we see it. Even God is an expression of Creativity.
4. Nature as Alive: The natural world has value in itself and all living beings
are worthy of respect and care. Rocks and trees, hills and rivers are not simply
facts in the world; they are also acts of self-realization. The whole of nature
is alive with value. We humans dwell within, not apart from, the Ten Thousand
Things. We, too, have value.
5. Compassion and Justice: Humans find their fulfillment in living in harmony
with the earth and compassionately with each other. The ethical life lies in
living with respect and care for other people and the larger community of life.
Justice is fidelity to the bonds of relationship. A just society is also a free
and peaceful society. It is creative, compassionate, participatory, ecologically
wise, and spiritually satisfying - with no one left behind.
6. Novelty: Humans find their fulfillment in being open to new ideas, insights,
and experiences that may have no parallel in the past. Even as we learn from the
past, we must be open to the future. God is present in the world, among other
ways, through novel possibilities. Human happiness is found, not only in wisdom
and compassion, but also in creativity.
7. Thinking and Feeling: The human mind is not limited to reasoning but also
includes feeling, intuiting, imagining; all of these activities can work
together toward understanding. Even reasoning is a form of feeling: that is,
feeling the presence of ideas and responding to them. There are many forms of
wisdom: mathematical, spatial, verbal, kinesthetic, empathic, logical, and
spiritual.
8. Relational Selfhood: Human beings are not skin-encapsulated egos cut off from
the world by the boundaries of the skin, but persons-in-community whose
interactions with others are partly definitive of their own internal existence.
We depend for our existence on friends, family, and mentors; on food and
clothing and shelter; on cultural traditions and the natural world. The
communitarians are right: there is no "self" apart from connections with others.
The individualists are right, too. Each person is unique, deserving of respect
and care. Other animals deserve respect and care, too.
9. Complementary Thinking: The process way leans toward both-and thinking, not
either-or thinking. The rational life consists not only of identifying facts and
appealing to evidence, but taking apparent conflicting ideas and showing how
they can be woven into wholes, with each side contributing to the other. In
Whitehead’s thought these wholes are called contrasts. To be "reasonable" is to
be empirical but also imaginative: exploring new ideas and seeing how they might
fit together, complementing one another.
10. Theory and Practice: Theory affects practice and practice affects theory; a
dichotomy between the two is false. What people do affects how they think and
how they think affects what they do. Learning can occur from body to mind: that
is, by doing things; and not simply from mind to body.
11. The Primacy of Persuasion over Coercion: There are two kinds of power –
coercive power and persuasive power – and the latter is to be preferred over the
former. Coercive power is the power of force and violence; persuasive power is
the power of invitation and moral example.
12. Relational Power: This is the power that is experienced when people dwell in
mutually enhancing relations, such that both are “empowered” through their
relations with one another. In international relations, this would be the kind
of empowerment that occurs when governments enter into trade relations that are
mutually beneficial and serve the wider society; in parenting, this would be the
power that parents and children enjoy when, even amid a hierarchical
relationship, there is respect on both sides and the relationship strengthens
parents and children.
13. The Primacy of Particularity: There is a difference between abstract ideas
that are abstracted from concrete events in the world, and the events
themselves. The fallacy of misplaced concreteness lies in confusing the
abstractions with the concrete events and focusing more on the abstract than the
particular.
14. Experience in the Mode of Causal Efficacy: Human experience is not
restricted to acting on things or actively interpreting a passive world. It
begins by a conscious and unconscious receiving of events into life and being
causally affected or influenced by what is received. This occurs through the
mediation of the body but can also occur through a reception of the moods and
feelings of other people (and animals).
15. Concern for the Vulnerable: Humans are gathered together in a web of felt
connections, such that they share in one another’s sufferings and are
responsible to one another. Humans can share feelings and be affected by one
another’s feelings in a spirit of mutual sympathy. The measure of a society does
not lie in questions of appearance, affluence, and marketable achievement, but
in how it treats those whom Jesus called "the least of these" -- the neglected,
the powerless, the marginalized, the otherwise forgotten.
16. Evil: “Evil” is a name for debilitating suffering from which humans and
other living beings suffer, and also for the missed potential from which they
suffer. Evil is powerful and real; it is not merely the absence of good. “Harm”
is a name for activities, undertaken by human beings, which inflict such
suffering on others and themselves, and which cut off their potential. Evil can
be structural as well as personal. Systems -- not simply people -- can be
conduits for harm.
17. Education as a Lifelong Process: Human life is itself a journey from birth
(and perhaps before) to death (and perhaps after) and the journey is itself a
process of character development over time. Formal education in the classroom is
a context to facilitate the process, but the process continues throughout a
lifetime. Education requires romance, precision, and generalization. Learning is
best when people want to learn.
18. Religion and Science: Religion and Science are both human activities,
evolving over time, which can be attuned to the depths of reality. Science
focuses on forms of energy which are subject to replicable experiments and which
can be rendered into mathematical terms; religion begins with awe at the beauty
of the universe, awakens to the interconnections of things, and helps people
discover the norms which are part of the very make-up of the universe itself.
19. God: The universe unfolds within a larger life – a love supreme – who is
continuously present within each actuality as a lure toward wholeness relevant
to the situation at hand. In human life we experience this reality as an inner
calling toward wisdom, compassion, and creativity. Whenever we see these three
realities in human life we see the presence of this love, thus named or not.
This love is the Soul of the universe and we are small but included in its life
not unlike the way in which embryos dwell within a womb, or fish swim within an
ocean, or stars travel throught the sky. This Soul can be addressed in many
ways, and one of the most important words for addressing the Soul is "God." The
stars and galaxies are the body of God and any forms of life which exist on
other planets are enfolded in the life of God, as is life on earth. God is a
circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere. As God beckons
human beings toward wisdom, compassion, and creativity, God does not know the
outcome of the beckoning in advance, because the future does not exist to be
known. But God is steadfast in love; a friend to the friendless; and a source of
inner peace. God can be conceived as "father" or "mother" or "lover" or
"friend." God is love.
20. Faith: Faith is not intellectual assent to creeds or doctrines but rather
trust in divine love. To trust in love is to trust in the availability of fresh
possibilities relative to each situation; to trust that love is ultimately more
powerful than violence; to trust that even the galaxies and planets are drawn by
a loving presence; and to trust that, no matter what happens, all things are
somehow gathered into a wider beauty. This beauty is the Adventure of the
Universe as One."
"Reflecting a fundamental distinction concerning the nature of time, namely
the distinction between the A-series and the B-series of time introduced by
McTaggart (1908). The A-series essentially amounts to a characterization
of time and temporal order in terms of past, present, and future. The B-series,
in contrast, is based on the notions ‘earlier’ and ‘later’. Thus, whereas the
A-series presupposes a distinguished present, the B-series involves an
overarching, global perspective on time. McTaggart argued that the B-series is
insufficient because it lacks an appropriate notion of change, and he rejected
the A-series as inconsistent because what is future now will be past, which,
according to him, requires that one and the same time instant has incompatible
properties. From this he concluded that time is unreal."
Temporal Logic
Per Heraclitus, can I step into the same river twice? If you mean by
"same river" the "entire length of the Columbia River from The Dalles to Astoria
in Oregon" then I have stepped into the Columbia River many times and at
different times. We enter and exit, step in and step out, the Columbia is
cold, and it looks and feels like the "same river." At the microscopic
level of my body, or in the billions of water molecules in the Columbia, change
is the dominant feature, Becoming Rules. Events jump and hop along, onto new
places, even my body-mind. At the level of the experiencing body-mind, I
am not stepping into
the "same river." At the level of the remembering body-mind I am stepping
into the "same river."
- Mike Garofalo
"Friedrich Nietzsche wrote that Heraclitus "will remain eternally right with his assertion that being is an empty fiction". Nietzsche developed the vision of a chaotic world in perpetual change and becoming. The state of becoming does not produce fixed entities, such as being, subject, object, substance, thing. These false concepts are the necessary mistakes which consciousness and language employ in order to interpret the chaos of the state of becoming. The mistake of Greek philosophers was to falsify the testimony of the senses and negate the evidence of the state of becoming. By postulating being as the underlying reality of the world, they constructed a comfortable and reassuring "after-world" where the horror of the process of becoming was forgotten, and the empty abstractions of reason appeared as eternal entities."
"I saw Master Chang San-Feng
Enter the Sidhe, Fairies by his side,
Crossing over the pond at dawn.
Astonished I was!
On the teahouse table by the pond I later found
Some of his neatly printed notes
Folded in a well worn tome
Of the Tao Te Ching, in Chapter 14.
He had written:
”Even for an Immortal, the Past is the Key.
The Future
Grasp at it, but you can’t get it,
Colorless as an invisible crystal web,
Unformed, thin, a conundrum of ideas,
The Grand White Cloud Temple of Possibilities,
Flimsy as a maybe, strong as our hopes,
Silent as eternal Space.
When you meet it, you can’t see its face.
You want to stand for it, but cannot find a place.
The Present
It appears and disappears through the moving ten thousand things,
Quick as a wink, elusive as a hummingbird,
Always Now with no other choice,
Moving ground, unstable Plates,
Real as much as Real gets to Be,
This Day has finally come,
Room for something, for the moment, waits
Gone in a flash, assigned a date,
Gulp, swallowed by the future.
Unceasing, continuous, entering and leaving
The vast empty center of the Elixir Field.
The Past
Becoming obscurer, fading, falling apart,
A mess of memories in the matrix of brains;
Some of it written, fixed in ink, chiseled in stone,
Most of it long lost in graves of pure grey bones.
Following it you cannot see its back,
Only forms of the formless, stories, tales,
Images of imageless, fictions, myths.
A smattering of forever fixed facts,
Scattered about the homes of fading ghosts.
The twists and turns of millions of tongues
Leaving us languages, our passports to the past.
The future becomes
past, the present becomes past,
Every thing lives, subtracting but seconds for Nowness, in the Past.
The Realms of the Gods, the kingdoms of men,
The Evolutionary Tree with roots a million years long
Intertwined with turtles, dragons, trees, stars and toads;
crickets, coyotes, grasses, tigers, bears, monkeys and men.
These profoundest
Three of Time
An unraveled red Knot of Mystery,
Evading scrutiny in the darkness of days
Eluding capture in the brightness of nights,
In beginnings and endings are only One, the Tao,
Coming from Nowhere, Returning to Nothing.
What dimension of
Time
Does your mind dwell within?
Future, Present or Past
Where is your homeland?
The Past holds the
accomplishments, the created, the glories, and the Great.
The Present is but a thin coat of ice on the Pond of Fate.
The Future is an illusion, a guess, a plethora of possible states.
Recreate the Past
By playing within the Present.
Twisting and reeling one’s silky reality
From the Black Cocoons of the Acts
From which we create our Pasts.
Follow the Ancient Ways.
The Past is the Key.”
- Michael P. Garofalo, Meetings with Master Chang San Feng
Quotations: Process Philosophy Quotations I Quotations II
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