Section 63 (first updated 4.07.2021) DNA Paths of Possibility The Crossroads of Inheritance and Human Movement Imagine a city intersection at rush hour — thousands of people crossing in every direction, each carrying histories, intentions, memories, and futures. The famous Shibuya Crossing becomes more than infrastructure; it becomes a living model of inheritance itself. DNA …
Section 62 (first updated 4.05.2021) Internal external view: How one conceives the other Whitehead explains the two ways reality is conceivable when he says: “For example, we can conceive nature as composed of permanent things, namely bits of matter, moving about in space which otherwise is empty. This way of thinking about nature has an …
Section 61 (first updated 03.31.2021) Dante’s Inferno and the Modern Meaning of Hell Inferno remains one of the most startling conceptions of “hell” ever created—especially when its imagery is understood beyond the literal or theological surface. The common interpretation of hell imagines it as a mystical realm external to earthly existence: a place where human …
Sections 60 (first updated 03.29.2021) Impartiality of Consciousness (Ultimate Observer) The universal nature of consciousness is not the same as its particular nature. In its particular nature, it remains passive and impartial to the whole, and this passivity maintains the particular forms that it encompasses.[1] For example, she does not demand attention because she is …
Section 62 (first updated 03.26.2021) Open to Interpretation The problem with biblical stories is that they are open to too much interpretation. They leave questions with too many possible answers. As a result, one must discern from a set of all possible answers and choose certain ones over others. In doing so, you are essentially …
Cosmology is a Conceptual Principle The cosmological principle is one of those principles that we all agree to as true without exactly knowing how it is true or why it is true. In modern cosmology, it is commonly accepted as the assumption that the universe is uniform and isotropic on large scales. Yet this agreement …
Section 57 (first updated 03.15.2021) Composition of Consciousness The composition of consciousness—the composition or the make-up of the all-encompassing subject we call consciousness—is a difficult thing to describe. We call consciousness an all-encompassing principle because consciousness has a fullness within itself that is not always directly recognizable. It often exhibits only an indirect effect, yet …
First updated 2.26.2026 Generation vs Locomotion Motion is perhaps the strangest of phenomena, yet at the same time it is the most familiar one. We notice motion and are in motion at all times. Even our subatomic structures consist in coordinate systems of processes that are in constant motion. Yet this constant motion, as entropy …
Section 55 (first updated 02.27.2021) Perceptual Object In Chapter VIII of Process and Reality, Alfred North Whitehead develops his account of perceptual objects within his broader philosophy of organism. For Whitehead, objects are not limited to the ordinary, everyday things we see and touch. There are different kinds of objects. Some are perceptual objects—those immediately …
Section 54 (first updated 02.25.2021) Whitehead “Situation” In the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, the term situation refers to the concrete relational context within which an event or “actual occasion” exists. Whitehead’s metaphysics, especially as developed in Process and Reality, replaces the notion of static substances with dynamic events. Reality, for him, is composed not …