FRAGMENT FROM NATURE for this and next weekend focuses on a truly fascinating and unusual essay by Professors John Dupré and Daniel J. Nicholson, entitled ‘A Manifesto for a Processual Philosophy of Biology’, or a viewpoint of process ontology, where life is a hierarchy of processes rather than of things. “There is no thing in biology (or, as Bohm would have it, in the world). Things are abstractions from an ever-changing reality. Reality consists of a hierarchy of intertwined processes. We remain strangely fixated on explanation in terms of static unchanging entities. Things are ‘precipitates’ of processes.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022