…because what I want to concentrate on is what I call the short epoch, and my terminology here is largely drawn from Alfred North Whitehead, who I think is the great unsung hero of British 20th century philosophy and he had a notion of a progression of…

…you and I and perhaps to some degree Ralph, come out of the influence of the school called organismic philosophy that Alfred North Whitehead and Joseph Needham and l l white put forth. Clearly the reason that organism you know Rupert made the very…

…like slowly the autonomic nervous system of the collectivity is being put in place. Is that scary? I don't know. Alfred North Whitehead said, the business of the future is to be scary. What's happening is the stakes are rising. Extinction and instinction…

…an interesting notion that any discussion of reality will tend to come back to. It wasn't until the 1930s that Alfred North Whitehead, in his book process and reality, created the great phrase that has now entered the language, the fallacy of misplaced…

…What this graph draws is a graph of novelty. Novelty is a concept that is highly developed in the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. Novelty is the thing for which we as a scientific culture, have no description. But it's the most important thing to…

…to know that we are like cells moving at the will of a larger system. Somebody once said, electrons blindly run. And Alfred North Whitehead said, yes, but inside the body, they blindly run across according to the body's plan. And I think that's what you…

…would be a spider web. So bear that in mind. Concrescence. Concrescence is a word that I cribbed from the metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead. And in fact, much of what I say Whitehead provides the foundation for. He, like myself, had the idea that he,…

…even our own lives. And so I've developed something which I call novelty theory. And I use the vocabulary of Alfred North Whitehead because it's a pre existing vocabulary created by a very, very, very reputable mathematician, which, as this story will make…

…meat is in process and reality. I mean, the great unread philosophical tome of the 20th century, process and reality by Alfred North Whitehead. Tell your friends. Anyway, so this is time, and this is habit going up. So, for instance, whoops. When the wave…

…escaped my lips tonight by accident is novelty. Novelty is the concept that I've elaborated over the years, taking it from Alfred North Whitehead. But as I see it, being the cosmos, whatever you want to call it, is a struggle between two implacable…

…world soul. And yet, you know, the fate of Bergson, his influence on modern society, on modern philosophy, is certainly minimal. Alfred North Whitehead is my great favorite. I mean, I think Whitehead is just the cat's pajamas. And he has this idea of a…

…pathways more and more concrescent, more and more at the behest of the dynamics of emergent properties that are unpredictable. Alfred North Whitehead said, it's the business of the future to be dangerous. And of course, as we approach the millennium, this…

…That was all a horrible misunderstanding, the idea that we should understand reality and then somehow make something of it. Alfred North Whitehead said that understanding is the apperception of pattern as such. As such. That's all. So here we have a room…

…or tails, but it can't be both. So, out of the class of the posse, one outcome is selected for what Alfred North Whitehead calls the formality of actually occurring. The formality of actually occurring. Well, in a sense, science then, is revealed as the…

…is paid at every step of the way. First of all, because we are concrescent entities of feeling. This is Alfred North Whitehead. We are concrescent entities of feeling. Yet our language prepares us to describe a world of three dimensional spatial…

…price paid at every step of the way. First of all, because we are concrescent entities of feeling. This is Alfred North Whitehead. We are concrescent entities of feeling. Yet our language prepares us to describe a world of three dimensional spatial…

…so unbounded that it gives me the opportunity to play and clay if I choose. Much of what I say is Alfred North Whitehead, his philosophy. And believe me, if you're looking around for a serious ontological foundation, you don't have to read Sanskrit.…

…his philosophy. And believe me, if you're looking around for a serious ontological foundation, you don't have to read Sanskrit. Alfred North Whitehead will serve very admirably science in the modern world process and reality. He was. He was and remains the…

…of time is not a predictive theory of events. I've just quantified one quality, which I call novelty. And following Alfred North Whitehead about how history is the career of novelty, ingressing into time. And sometimes novelty comes fast, and sometimes it…

…and that it really should be looked at as a totality symbol which haunts human history in the same way that Alfred North Whitehead thought that the color dove gray haunted human history. In other words, it's a thing always present. It is the symbol…

…to know that we are like cells moving at the will of a larger system. Somebody once said, electrons blindly run. And Alfred North Whitehead said, yes, but inside the body they blindly run according to the body's plan. And I think that's what you might…

…called forth by this. The laws of physics are going into crisis. This is why I urge people to look at Alfred North Whitehead, who was a very scientific and mathematically grounded thinker, and who talked about what he called sudden shifts of epochs. His…

…platonic, but I don't think we can just be platonists. There's been some development since 530 bc. Take a look at Alfred North Whitehead. It's the problem is the eternality of the ideas and their supra ordinary, the supra ordinary ontos of their existence,…

…it up, it may be in other people's minds. The reason I use the word novelty is because I'm a great fan of Alfred North Whitehead, who was probably the last and greatest of the Platonists. And he has a theory which is put forth in process and reality,…

…by the surrounding telos toward concrescence. A lot of the words that I use to talk about this are taken out of Alfred North Whitehead, who's to my mind, the great unread philosopher of the 20th century. And he wrote a book called process and reality,…

…is preceded by the next, at an ever greater rate, of what I call ingression into novelty. This is a phrase out of Alfred North Whitehead so what does that mean it means in the early universe it took a long time for things to get interesting for things…

…cultural functioning over to machines that operate according to criteria but dimly perceived by their designers so I think the future Alfred North Whitehead said it is the business of the future to be dangerous and so it is but never more dangerous than…