I do not have the brain for slogging through philosophy books, I've not read whitehead myself. For me it's all about deltas accumulating over time, and about functions being defined by their internals rather than from on high.
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Is that immanence?
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So, imagine reality as a vast field of deltas - the universe is a giant, append-only stream of deltas accruing since the big bang, each representing some change in the state of the universe. You could choose to reduce those deltas down to a lossy representation of you, right?
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But you would be taking a tiny fraction of the total set of deltas. Most of what 'you' are can be defined without reference to some delta in the position of an electron in another galaxy.
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'Immanence' as I understand it is the reductive view of 'you' at some time. It's a slice out of time and space, a tiny set of the total deltas. 'Transcendence' is just thinking about reality in terms of the whole set of deltas, rather than any semantically relevant subset.
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Whitehead's whole thing is: 'gosh, all of western philosophy acts like Immanence is the only thing that's real, but don't they see that the transcendent view is just as ontologically relevant? Or maybe moreso, even?' @moonandserpent chime in if I'm being reductive!
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Aha I just thought of a great example. What if you found all of twitter's tweet data in an archive, but no user account data? You could still mostly re-derive that user data by analyzing mentions and authors in the tweet data, right? The process gives rise to the object.
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I’m not sure what transcendence means to an atheist and materialist. There is no archive of events, there’s just what we encounter, and a network or causes.
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I’m well out of my depth here, most of what I know comes from a single reading of a piece by fucktheory on immanence per Deleuze and Spinoza
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I really liked the introduction here: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/process-philosophy/ …
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Thanks. I can see how it’s sympathetic with daoism.
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