Thread by @kentbye

1/ I'm a huge fan of Process Philosophy as the catalyst of a paradigm shift.
Rather than seeing things as static objects, Process Philosophy sees reality as a set of dynamic processes & relationships that are in constant flux.

Stanford Encyclopedia entry:
plato.stanford.edu/entries/proces…

2/ Alfred North Whitehead's "Process & Reality" was a big catalyst for process philosophy & relational metaphysics, but his work is dense & difficult to wrap your mind around with all of his neologisms & unconventional use of terms.
A good overview here:
plato.stanford.edu/entries/whiteh…

3/ Whitehead thought of his system as the "philosophy of organism," & there are some in the philosophy of biology who are arguing to take a more process philosophy & relational approach.

Here's an open access book from Oxford University Press on it:
researchgate.net/publication/32…

4/ There's an introductory "Manifesto for Processual Philosophy of Biology" critiquing Whitehead's full metaphysical system, which is dense & confusing.

But there are many powerful & robust aspects of a process/relational metaphysics beyond Whitehead.
researchgate.net/publication/32…

5/ There's a lot of insights into virtual reality & human perception when taking a process/relational approach.
The predictive coding theory of neuroscience maps out a dialectic between our concepts/language making predictions about embodied experiences:

https://twitter.com/kentbye/status/1239750996240117760

6/ @grantmaxwell is a philosopher who traced the evolution process thinking ranging from Hegel, James, Jung, Whitehead, Bergson, Gebser, Bohm, Taylor, Hillman, Grof, & Tarnas in his "Dynamics of Transformation," which starts to flesh out a paradigm shift.
amazon.com/Dynamics-Trans…

7/ Process Philosophy is a relatively nascent branch of philosophy & so still many open questions.
It's arguably closer to Chinese Philosophy metaphysics than the substance metaphysics of Western Philosophy in either the analytic or continental branches.
plato.stanford.edu/entries/chines…

8/ Peter Simons argues in Metaphysical section of "Everything Flows" that process could be seen as fundamental.
Whitehead extrapolated from quantum mechanics & general relativity that reality was more about relationships & processes than concrete objects.
researchgate.net/publication/32…

9/ F. Bradford Wallack argues in "The Epochal Nature of Process in Whitehead's Metaphysics" the subject-predicate structure of Indo-European languages wires us to think in terms of concrete & static objects rather than dynamic processes. Whitehead attempts to escape with jargon.

10/ Process philosophy is a huge topic beyond what I can convey here, but seeing reality as a hierarchy of dynamic process constantly in flux is a radical paradigm shift to seeing reality as static stuff.
It's helped me understand experiential entertainment & XR storytelling.

11/ I've found myself talking about Process Philosophy a lot more lately, & it's such a key part of my philosophical foundations for how I'm making sense of the future of immersive technologies.
I talked a bit of philosophy on the @BtweenRealities podcast:

12/ I had a chance to talk to a number of different process philosophers at the American Philosophical Association Eastern Meeting in 2019, & I hope to launch the inaugural season of Voices of Philosophy soon to dive into all of this in a bit more detail.

https://twitter.com/kentbye/status/1201468123808817153