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Alfred North Whitehead redefined how we understand reality, not as static objects, but as dynamic processes constantly in flux. In this episode, George Monty dives into Whitehead’s philosophy of process, examining how events, experiences, and relationships form the evolving tapestry of consciousness and existence.

In this episode:

• The core principles of Whitehead’s process philosophy
• Understanding reality as dynamic, relational, and interconnected
• How consciousness emerges from processes, not particles
• Implications for society, technology, and human understanding
• Why Whitehead’s ideas resonate in a world of rapid change

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Speaker 0 (0s): Part to me, Whoo my friends. Welcome back to the beginning. We're back here with Alfred North Whitehead we are in what we're doing, what we're doing is we are looking at the future through the eyes of a philosopher in the past. Yeah. And it is so intriguing and beautiful and amazing journey all through the eyes of the past. 

I got to tell you, this is really something to reading these older books that are not fiction and they're not science fiction. And there are really not literature. They are the dialogs, the paper's the written correspondences of, of people in the past. There is something so visceral about it. And I hope all of you, we're getting a chance to get out of this. What I get out of it, let's dive right back in here and you can actually, hopefully you can get a sense of what I have been getting a sense of. 

And again, these are just the dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead and they were taken or written down over the course of about 20 years or 30 years. So let's, let's jump right back into it here. Again, I'm going to just kind of go through some excerpts that I've highlighted, stopping every now and then to give you a sense of what I think about it. And hopefully allowing you a few moments to do a little mental exercise with me and see what you think about it. 

So that being said, I just jumped right back in here from the book. I raised the question why the creation of an artwork exhausts the experience for his creator, but is infinitely potent have repeated stimulations in the enjoyer. Perhaps you said it is because of all human effort is directed towards the achievement of an end, whether it is satisfied or not. 

And the artists in, although never quite the result he hoped for is largely attained. And therefor finished for him to a point in which he ends is where the enjoyer begins. That's an interesting way to look at it. What do you think the generation now at the age of 50 or thereabouts, he said seems to, to have had its upbringing terribly bungled. When I address an assemblage of youths under the age of 30, I am aware of feeling a hearty respect for them. 

I think he continued, it came from their parents having lost their own belief, but going on insisting on the dead formula of conduct in order to keep their children quote unquote good. When they no longer believed in these formula themselves to children eventually found that out, deceived their parents in turn and it resulted in deceit all around. 

They knew their old religion was empty, but were not honest with themselves no more with their children about it, their children in those years, between 18 and 24, when one is experiencing for the first time, the vital necessities, emotional and physical were left in total ignorance of th