…in Britain, it's not primarily about deep curiosity about nature. It's about being a functionary within a system. Well, as Whitehead said, this divorce between science and philosophy has been the detriment of both. And I think that science, properly…

…of the very large class of the possible, certain things are going to have to be selected to actually happen. To undergo what Whitehead calls the formality of actually occurring. And an idea like Rupert's is a way of saying, well, here it's the past. The…

…inform this stream that goes perhaps, Rupert, you might add others to this, but from William James, Henri Bergson, through A.N. Whitehead and Owen Barfield to more recent people like yourself, Gregory Bateson, David Bohm, And then to people writing now, Amy…

…can you say a little bit about you know how you might see the the connection of those two or Well, I mean, I find Whitehead a very helpful philosopher. And part of his, I confess, I find it really hard to understand some of his books like Process and…

…about the formation from the past, but he's also almost talking about a pull from the future. Yes, I like that side of Whitehead. I just wish he hadn't been so confusing. You see, by calling them eternal objects and then by saying, well, they're not…

…is a way of looking at this experimentally. But you see, when I get to that, when I'm thinking about that, Whitehead doesn't much help, nor is anyone else, because apart from Plato and Euclid, most philosophers haven't really thought about this particular…

…parts. It's a kind of a process. Also, one of my favorite philosophers and mathematicians of the past is Albert Whitehead, who had a very interesting kind of relationship between these aspects of reality, about the relativity between the different parts…

…can do yeah Well, thank you. That was wonderfully clear. And actually, I think that I too am interested in the philosophy of Whitehead and the process view. And I actually think that almost everything you said is borne out by modern science. I don't see…

…resonance, and habits. It certainly has habits, like its 11-year cycle. But it may also have a conscious mind where, as Whitehead points out, one of the main functions of consciousness conscious minds is choosing among possible actions the sun has possible…