Probing Process & Reality - "Why Whitehead?"

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  • @activedreamr
    @activedreamr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    What a beautiful, thoughtful, engaging and admirably humble lecture! I could listen for hours and hours more.

    • @stephenwinter5958
      @stephenwinter5958 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Your reflection is one that I also had while listening to Dr Cobb. I feel that if I can speak something like with his clarity, simplicity, humility and wisdom when I have reached his age I will have lived my life quite well.

  • @JanetWilson-q3c
    @JanetWilson-q3c 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    What an EXCEPTIONAL educator. Very clear. Defines complex ideas in context! Wonderful!!!

  • @geoffreynhill2833
    @geoffreynhill2833 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    This might well have been subtitled, "Why No Cosmology?" Dr. Cobb outlines the revolution in Philosophy brought about by Whitehead in a refreshingly jargon-free inspiring way. 🤔 (Green Fire UK) 🌈🦉

  • @paulkelly1162
    @paulkelly1162 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Dr. Cobb's "Whitehead Word Book" is a brilliant, accessible introduction to Whitehead. It is also a great reference book. I couldn't get through Process and Reality without it.

  • @johnvonachen1672
    @johnvonachen1672 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I attended Washburn University in the late 90’s and had a couple of classes under Jorge Luis Nobo, now deceased, who had undertaken the task described here. Had I known what I know now after watching this video, I can’t help but feel regret at leaving when I did. I guess it’s never too late. All paths are blind alleys but some are better than others and we have new blind alleys to discover for ourselves and make our own.

  • @sebastianverney7851
    @sebastianverney7851 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    admirably slow and clear speaker

  • @simonhanson5990
    @simonhanson5990 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    inspirational, thank you very much

  • @tasneemrasool8222
    @tasneemrasool8222 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    So true,,❤❤,,the science and philosophy are not working in the most comprehensive way ,,,where in the quantum world and existentialism is so crucial to study to understand.❤❤ thankyou so much ❤❤

  • @raycosmic9019
    @raycosmic9019 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Epistemology = the systematic study of Knowledge, Understanding and Wisdom.
    Reality = That which is/That I am.
    Knowledge = the portion of Reality that is known experientially (Gnosis).
    Understanding = Knowing how to apply what has been learned from experience to experience.
    Wisdom = Competent application of Knowledge (expertise, excellence).
    The Light of Wisdom and Understanding dispels the darkness of ignorance and folly.
    The Word of Truth is ever faithful (loyal, true, isomorphic) to Reality (That which is).
    The smallest atomic unit of experience is an impression. An impression is a bundle of qualities received through the 5 senses, which the brain organizes into something recognizable we call a perception.
    Perception is the brain's identification system, answering the questions of what, who, how, why, where, when, etc.
    What we actually experience are the qualities of our perception. The brain derives meaning from the 'drivers'; those qualities that change our inner state of Being as they change.
    Someone with a visual driver of distance will feel more or less positive, negative or neutral as an image moves farther away, becoming smaller and darker, and feel the opposite as the image moves closer, getting bigger and brighter.
    Perspective provides the context of meaning. Perspectives are formed and emerge from 4 primary metaprograms:
    Inner/Outer
    More/Less
    Better/Worse
    For/not For
    Creative Process/Inquiry/Insight:
    Mentation - Metanoia - Mutation
    1. Immersion (mentation)
    2. Saturation
    3. Incubation
    4. Fruition (metanoia)
    5. Confirmation (mutation)
    6. Implementation
    7. Calibration
    Ask a compelling question as you fall asleep, receive a compelling answer as you wake up.

  • @sinisterminister3322
    @sinisterminister3322 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I studied Whitehead under David Griffen at the Claremont School of Theology way back in the 1980s and have been a disciple of Whitehead ever since. What I especially appreciate about Whitehead‘s philosophy is in jettisoning the conventional two realm conception of reality made up of the really real, objective realm, and the not so real, subjective realm. There is instead only one reality. That of experience.

    • @Dystisis
      @Dystisis 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sounds like phenomenology.

  • @joelskannyana9661
    @joelskannyana9661 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    “Process and Reality” is an extremely complicated book on its own, but many thanks to Proffesor Cobb for simplifying to us the Cosmology involving technical terminologies found in Whiteheadian philosophy.

    • @sonarbangla8711
      @sonarbangla8711 ปีที่แล้ว

      There is nothing complicated about 'process and reality', Whitehead found a simple solution to creation as 'accident' explain everything to him. But to me the answer was not scientific and not even metaphysical.

    • @gariusjarfar1341
      @gariusjarfar1341 ปีที่แล้ว

      Technical terminologies of Whitehead's philosophy. Out of the mind that wasn't aware of the torrid meteor field. That wasn't aware of the possibility of a meteor field that we pass through 2 times a yr; that has been destroying life for at least 66 million yrs. Rome after 70 AD, the formation of Christianity and the and end of Sanhedrin, free age of the Rabbi. Mithra became Christianity, the Rabbi's invented a new Palestine. Forgotten the old technology of compression crystal electricity.

    • @Impaled_Onion-thatsmine
      @Impaled_Onion-thatsmine 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Is this the symbolic logic food guy?

  • @VOCATUS123
    @VOCATUS123 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I was introduced to Whitehead at the University of West Georgia while getting my MA in psychology! It was a very humanistic program then.

    • @stephenbarrell7821
      @stephenbarrell7821 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Fascinating! Who was it that introduced Whitehead's ideas at UWG, and what it in any way connected with their (para)psychology department?

    • @VOCATUS123
      @VOCATUS123 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      For me it was Chris Anstoos, now retired professor in the psychology department@@stephenbarrell7821

  • @chillysoup
    @chillysoup 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This book is a work of art

  • @charlesbruno990
    @charlesbruno990 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I have a limited education, (2 yr engineering degree) but Whithead's "process" philosophy was not difficult for me to understand. However, I believe it encompasses much more than "cosmology".

  • @abeg.6738
    @abeg.6738 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Amen, brother.

  • @bachamadu2076
    @bachamadu2076 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I didn't read much Whitehead's work. But i was introduced to his work many years ago in philosophy of religión lecturer. Quite faschinating. However, if i'm not wrong, he made God a becoming being. Not a Being as such but one who becomes. In that sense, God is no more than exalted and a little bit sophesticated being who is becoming in parralel with created beings. As Dr. Cobb, points out why Whitehead is bcos of the emergence of new Scientfic knoweldge. In other, it seems to me, what he set out to do was to harmonize his philosophy not only with Darwinian evolutionary biology but also the evolution of cosmos. Indeed, the advance of knoweldge from premitive age, in microlevel, seem to coincide with this macro level evolution as the basis of becoming or process philosophy and thelogy. It's an ambitious attempt at explaining reality. Yet, some of us are not convinced just bcos of the disagreement on the very fundamental issue i.e. God. The God of Bible He who said I Am who Am, with no Beginning and no End, can't be a becoming being.

    • @InterestedInDansk
      @InterestedInDansk 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      On the contrary God has become man, God does not become absorbed by Man because everyone including God must have their own individuality and at the same time their absolute unity
      God is not a limited being

  • @PrimitiveBaroque
    @PrimitiveBaroque 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I've had Whitehead's book for many years. I had so much trouble understanding, but after doing a serious study of Aristotle it does clarify a lot of Whitehead's train of thought. It's easier to think of Whitehead's theory of actual occasions/entities as Aristotelian substances (potentiality/actuality) on steroids, but a shift from "substance"/object thinking to "event" thinking. Obviously Whitehead is much more than this but it does help.

  • @blakestewart7200
    @blakestewart7200 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is so fucking beautiful. Thank you.

  • @SeekersofUnity
    @SeekersofUnity 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This is fantastic. Thank you.

  • @avicgimbusta9255
    @avicgimbusta9255 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you

  • @losgrillosloopeandenoche
    @losgrillosloopeandenoche 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Excelente!!! En breve voy a ponerme a leer Proces and Reality de Whithead. Estoy terminando mi tesis de Licenciatura en la noción de cuerpo en el Discurso de Metafísica de Leibniz y encuentro grandes similitudes entre sus ideas. Saludos desde Argentina!!

  • @arockiasamy249
    @arockiasamy249 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Excellent....

  • @StephenPaulKing
    @StephenPaulKing 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The Dualism that Prof Cobb speaks against is the Substance of Descartes and others. When we replace Substance with Process, we can remake Dualism into a workable form. I recommend the ideas that where put forward by Prof Vaughan Pratt in his paper Rational Mechanics and Natural Mathematics.

  • @independencemp3
    @independencemp3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    When the candle goes out, does the room evaporate?

    • @blakestewart7200
      @blakestewart7200 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ooh here’s the good shit. It does not. All processes are an accumulation.

  • @NoName-lq7kt
    @NoName-lq7kt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Look into Debrogile-Bohm, the quantum level of our world relates to the structure of what we would call biological determinism. Biology has a place in quantum physics.

  • @RosembergSantos
    @RosembergSantos ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hello, friends! Wonderful class by Professor Cobb. Would you allow me to translate this video and make it available in Brazilian Portuguese. Thank you!

  • @EinSofVirtuoso
    @EinSofVirtuoso 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    One who I have always enjoyed is Xavier Zubiri. He seems to have looked at the same problems of cosmology and developed a philosophy that focused on the dynamic structures of reality. Most of his work is in Spanish but I really enjoyed reading him. He was quite the polymath and studied with several great minds of the era (such as Schrodinger and Zermelo). Whitehead is among my favorites, especially through the work of the late Fr. Bernard Lee who drew me deeper towards Whitehead during my days in college.

    • @brynbstn
      @brynbstn 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      What would you recommend by Zubiri in English?

    • @EinSofVirtuoso
      @EinSofVirtuoso 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@brynbstn I would suggest his essays in “Nature History and God” and the book “Dynamic Structure of Reality” as good introductions. His main book is “On Essence” which breaks down his mature philosophy. For his theological ideas, “Man and God” is his best. His last book, Sentient Intelligence was his magnum opus for epistemology.

  • @leiferiksson5548
    @leiferiksson5548 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I haven't started this book yet, really looking forward to it though.

    • @word-pictures
      @word-pictures 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It's a tough one- especially because Whitehead uses his own unique terms to describe concepts that aren't always clear or concise. I dug into it for 8+ months for my undergrad thesis and, in some ways, still felt like I hadn't fully grasped it. If you have a background in physics you'll be much better off though.

    • @leiferiksson5548
      @leiferiksson5548 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@word-pictures I don’t have a background in physics. I have never taken a single physics course at university. I do find cosmology, astronomy and quantum physics interesting however.

    • @word-pictures
      @word-pictures 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@leiferiksson5548 I didn't either. Either way, I think you'll enjoy it if you're attracted to Whitehead's thinking and process philosophy in general :)

    • @leolllmaihoferll6350
      @leolllmaihoferll6350 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      same

  • @tasneemrasool8222
    @tasneemrasool8222 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Profound way of world view,,,so true.these things are all mentioned in Torah and Bible and Quran.. Spirituality and imagination to see beyond the seen and see from your mind's eye the unseen as well❤❤

  • @kjlkathandjohn6061
    @kjlkathandjohn6061 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Whitehead sought to define what Aristotle demonstrated as meaningless, the continuous is not divisible: a line is not composed of points (dimensionless); time is not composed of 'nows'. 'Now' is not in time, having no dimension of duration, and would not be missed if subtracted from a 'second'. Hume and Kant ignored Aristotle, who can be the basis of cosmological thought that includes quantum reality by being fully true to his Categories, On Interpretation, etc.

    • @brynbstn
      @brynbstn 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Radical!

  • @fractalnomics
    @fractalnomics ปีที่แล้ว

    Interesting, important.

  • @BestCosmologist
    @BestCosmologist 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is the tip of the information spear.

  • @ravissary79
    @ravissary79 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I do wish he got more into process and reality.

  • @muniekz5581
    @muniekz5581 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Piękne! Beautiful lecture :)

  • @tulliusagrippa5752
    @tulliusagrippa5752 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Define cosmology. In fact, provide definitions for all your terms.

  • @mohammadsaqibkhan1845
    @mohammadsaqibkhan1845 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Please someone tell me the name of this professor
    Wonderful explanation ❤️

    • @geoffreynhill2833
      @geoffreynhill2833 ปีที่แล้ว

      John B Cobb Jr. He's great, isn't he? 😉

  • @CGMaat
    @CGMaat ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why is not whitehead more in our measure like sacred geometry !

  • @bernardputersznit64
    @bernardputersznit64 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i thought cosmology was about the big bang etc - never heard it was about humans

  • @ysu2460
    @ysu2460 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Are the course recordings available anywhere, if they were recorded?

    • @CobbInstitute
      @CobbInstitute  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yes, you can sign up and access them here: cobb.institute/learning-lab/probing-process-and-reality/

  • @ravissary79
    @ravissary79 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I've come to abandon the moral and non-coersive assumptions that undergird process theology... but his vision of how reality works? The definitions? The hard parts? I've never seen a vision more brilliant than whiteheads.

    • @brynbstn
      @brynbstn 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      What non-cohesive assumptions?

    • @ravissary79
      @ravissary79 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@brynbstn non-coercive. As in, process theology is rooted in assumptions about God's method of divine intervention being totally non-coersive... and by non-coercive they mean, no overt applications of force that impose his will will anything sentient at all ever. Which rules out most miracle claims.

    • @brynbstn
      @brynbstn 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ravissary79 ohhhh. “Coercive”

    • @ravissary79
      @ravissary79 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@brynbstn yeah I misspelled it by accident.

  • @chargerification
    @chargerification 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The 20th century GOAT imo

  • @dylanvera7841
    @dylanvera7841 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is the course still open? I signed up for it yesterday and never got any email

    • @CobbInstitute
      @CobbInstitute  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thanks for letting us know Dylan. I contacted Tripp, and he should be getting in touch soon. Please let us know (at cobb.institute/contact/) if you don't hear back within the next few days.

  • @frederickanderson1860
    @frederickanderson1860 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    8:31 if we can't live in this planet or in the cosmos,we can colonise moon or mars or any planets,we just do same.

  • @elel2608
    @elel2608 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    15:00

  • @TheYoungIdealist
    @TheYoungIdealist 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    F.W.J. Schelling

  • @avicgimbusta9255
    @avicgimbusta9255 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Anand Veeraraj

  • @NelsonBegay-j3r
    @NelsonBegay-j3r 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Davis Sharon Rodriguez Lisa Hall Paul

  • @davidgill9638
    @davidgill9638 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    An interesting lecture but failed to cover the subject title in any depth. The lecture should really be titled a lecture on cosmology, not the work of Whitehead.

  • @elizabethwinsor-strumpetqueen
    @elizabethwinsor-strumpetqueen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    do you want to see the cosmos ? DMT will show you in a way that no other thing can - don't be shy , give it a try !

    • @BestCosmologist
      @BestCosmologist 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I bet you're cool.

    • @paulkelly1162
      @paulkelly1162 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dr. Cobb discusses psychedelics at some length in some interviews. Some searches should yield results.

  • @StephenPaulKing
    @StephenPaulKing 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Kant set Philosophy make at least 100 years! 😞

  • @williammabon6430
    @williammabon6430 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Here is the proof for the Construct theory:
    Infinity = 1/x(change) + 1
    This equation is God's mathematical name.
    God's name in this equation reads: God's Mind Is Man Changed With God.
    Breakdown: God's mind is infinite. In math this measure out as the set of infinity
    In math (1/x) represents a fraction of a whole. Any child is a fraction of a parent and man according to the Bible is God's child. Therefore man is a fraction of God
    Change in math is represented by the Greek letter (delta) and it denotes a difference of some kind.
    Plus (+) in math means to combine or add something with something.
    There is only one God. In math the number 1 means something or someone is complete and individual from all the rest.
    Spelled out: God's Mind (Infinity) is (=) Man (1/x) Changed ( delta) With (+) God (1).
    Scientific Method
    Step 1 Observation: Math can deliver unbreakable truths such as 2+2 will always = 4
    Step 2 Question: Do math and Divinity share a common truth?
    Step 3 Hypothesis: If God exist He should be found in the house of mathematics
    Step 4 Prediction: God's Mind Is Man Change With God is an equation
    Step 5 Test: Any number (Infinity) is (=) a set in space (1/x) that change (x^2) with (+) space (1))
    Again: All and any number is a set in space that change with space
    Note: "X" describes any set, (1) describes any kind of space physical or otherwise
    This equation tells us why 2 feet is not the same as 2 inches. Both distances are measured out as 2 units of space but there is a change or difference between both units. They are each sets in a space of distance but they represent changes in their measurement of distance.
    Step 6 Iterate: New look at what makes up reality. Reality consist of 3 domains of space
    a. Fractured space or matter b. spatial expansion or energy c. Complete or unbroken space or the whole of knowledge a.k.a. information

    Step 7 Conclusion: We now know Infinity is real therefore the value in enumeration demand God exist otherwise the domain for enumeration would be incomplete. We know the domain for enumeration is complete because we can count. God must be able to count too all the way to Infinity because His mathematical name tells us what is any number.
    As we can see God is fundamental in the cross between information and physical relationships
    I wrote a research doc looking deeper into this matter. Anyone who wants a free copy can contact me at:
    william.mabon@yahoo.com
    God's Mind Is Man Changed With God

  • @celal777
    @celal777 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I just realised that Jordan Peterson is actually more of a cosmologist than anything else.

    • @orgiophant93
      @orgiophant93 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      He's more of a charlatan than anything else.

    • @vasey6635
      @vasey6635 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      he is very Whiteheadian in cosmological/metaphysical orientation.
      also at general philosophical home with James, Peirce, Dewey...
      value-realist/denounces scientific materialism as nihilistic & lacking any coherent description of teleological causation (final/formal causes); although he is highly inclusive of the scientific enterprise in his overall approach, as pertains to energy dynamics/ mathematical models as critical/relevant tools.
      +
      considers reality, most precisely, as a process of actualizing potential/possibilities... and that there are intuitive, archetypal forms that guide this process towards MORE GOOD, MORE BEAUTIFUL possibilities...
      the parallels are there. he just isn't explicit about the idealism/possible panpsychism...

    • @grandtheftyoga8471
      @grandtheftyoga8471 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@vasey6635 either I like you, or yoy carrying a card. Lijed what you wrote though. So why did JP end up with brain damage in your understanding ? What was the exact etiology of his most serious blow?

    • @blakestewart7200
      @blakestewart7200 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Jordan Peterson is to cosmology what farting in a bathtub is to champagne.

    • @CharlieTourniquet
      @CharlieTourniquet 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@blakestewart7200 I laughed out loud!

  • @jugika
    @jugika 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Oh this is some Jesus stuff...

  • @Gringohuevon
    @Gringohuevon ปีที่แล้ว

    hilarious