Im Anfang war die Tat

kelley kwalker2 at gte.net
Sat Sep 29 18:05:17 PDT 2001


At 05:43 PM 9/29/01 -0700, Ian Murray wrote:


>============
>Agency is too and, in all probability, information. Descartes was into
>what would the world look like to God if God "saw" only atoms
>[physico-geometrical omniscience]. It was up to Leibniz to ask what
>would it be like *to be* an atom [monad]. Whitehead was a demigod, imo
>and if people get the chance, read and argue with "Process and
>Reality"-with it's "cell theory of actuality." Computer lovers,
>biology lovers and cellular automatists take note at how prescient the
>guy was..........

Follow it up with Justus Buchler's _Metaphysics of Natural Complexes_ --the last attempt at American systematic metaphysics.

not as spiritual but he grapples with weakness in Whitehead's work -- Dewey, Santayana, too.

kelley



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