Lately, I've been reading (and tweeting about) Whitehead. I'm about 100 pages into Stengers' book. It's fantastic. Thinking with Whitehead — Isabelle Stengershttps://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674416970#.XriIp5Ekn2I.twitter …
[1] He rejects the idea of nature as a continuum of instantaneous positions & values (which, for him, are reified abstractions) with actual atomistic durations vs potentials.
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[2] So causality isn't linear-dynamical in any classical sense & he would see nonlinear chaos as still dealing in reified abstactions. (See Stengers 193-200)
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Ok many thanks
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