In its encounter with the sciences, process thought has not only appropriated new scientific
insights but has attempted a mutual transformation through which the sciences are liberated
from the dominance of the
mechanistic, deterministic, substantialist view into a holistic relational vision that is more coherent, consistent, adequate to the facts, and congruent with the best in the contemporary scientific enterprise itself.
Although the underlying mechanisms remain largely unknown, particularly in humans,
mechanistic insights are emerging
from experimental model systems, which may have implications for understanding disease and development.