----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Winslow" <egwinslow at rogers.com>
The quoted passage is from a book criticizing the ontological foundations of orthodox evolutionary theory. You can't rationally conclude from the fact that the terms aren't defined in that passage that they aren't defined in the rest of the book or in Whitehead's work as a whole.
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And of course the foundations of 'orthodox' evolutionary theory are totally the same as they were when Whitehead wrote his works.
So, agency and experience aren't mere epiphenomena due to internal relations [the gist of his famous quote in SMW and some stuff in P&R] and organisms *actively* co-evolve with their environments. Big deal.
How do you get off the slippery slope to panexperientialism/panpsychism, Ted? I've been wondering about this every time you bring this stuff up.
Ian