Sentences with phrase «notion of the organism»

At that point in Science and the Modern World where Whitehead observes: «The relation of part to whole has the special reciprocity associated with the notion of organism, in which the part is for the whole»; he confirms: «but this relation reigns throughout nature and does not start with the special case of the higher organisms» [SMW 149].

But if one is going to start by doing something more fundamental, I think his notion of organism is likely to be more helpful than what are to me these extremely confused notions about events.

The notion of organisms as carriers of form — or rather, as only existing in patterned processes — was a preoccupation of the participants in the Dialogues, largely because of Rupert Sheldrake's book.

This generalized notion of organism does not preclude real differences of functioning at different levels.

The process view approaches these problems by an application of the notions of organism and environment.

There is this way, and there is the way of reiterative patterns in the passage of nature, which Margaret wants, and there is the way of the generalized notion of organism, which I may say I want.

In the durations they are made by sense - awareness, and when he gets to his notion of organisms they are non-arbitrary because there is the unit in time needed for functioning to take place.

Not exact matches

It is fundamental to the metaphysical doctrine of the philosophy of organism, that the notion of an actual entity as the unchanging subject of change is completely abandoned No thinker thinks twice; and, to put the matter more generally, no subject experiences twice.

There are long passages in the last chapter of Science and the Modern World, for instance, which could easily have served as the source of some of Leopold's ideas, and which suggest that Leopold's notion of community could be derived from Whitehead's theory of organism without much difficulty.

In explicating his own notion of «dynamism» Sullivan notes that, «Whitehead, among the philosophers, has conceived the universe as an organism, and certainly there is no difficulty in seeing living organisms as particular dynamisms.»

The derivative notion of «society» is essential to his metaphysics, for it serves to link his speculative conception of actual entities with entities of ordinary experience, such as material bodies and living organisms (including cells and molecules).

Whitehead's notion that «the emergence of organisms depends on a selective activity which is akin to purpose» accounts for this neglected side of evolution (SMW 107).

Whitehead's well - known notion of the Stage of Romance in education gets its power from the fundamental aesthetic need of the human organism for novelty and zest in experience.

Hence, to deal properly with Hegel, whose organismic understanding of reality is grounded in the analysis of macroscopic organisms, the true point of comparison should be the Whiteheadian notion of a society, not the doctrine of actual entities.

What a genetic ontology can contribute to questions posed by Whitehead is illustrated in the third part regarding the complex problem of the concept of «organism» versus the notion of «thing.»

The more primitive mode of objectification is via emotional tone, and only in exceptional organisms does objectification, via sensation, supervene with any effectiveness... Thus the whole notion of prehension should be inverted.

The notion of extension is the primary description of how an actual entity is an organism and how it takes account of all other entities.

Transcendence is a tricky notion, however, and requires qualification, for the world is also partly at the mercy of its representing creatures whose activities, at least in the case of «higher» organisms, can have an integrative or a disintegrative effect.

Whitehead's rejection ofthat position was emphatic: «It is fundamental to the metaphysical doctrine of the philosophy of organism that the notion of an actual entity as the unchanging subject of change is completely abandoned» (PR 29 / 44).

In the later books this becomes a crucial question when the key notion of the ontology is not that of event, but of organism.

Whitehead takes the notion of «organism» as the most profitable one for designating the natural units, but, by making macro-organisms societies of micro-organisms and giving directed activity only to these, he loses the distinctive unity of macro-organisms.

Those who consider this language to have been unfortunate may be encouraged by the Dialogues to go behind it and look again at the generalized notion of «organism» which seemed to be emerging in the earlier books.

DE: This seems to me to be what his philosophy of organism should have gone for, and when he said he was trying to make this a bridge notion between the biological and physical sciences, I think the link is in his notion of the «non-uniform object» of which the simplest example is the wave.

The main influence (e.g., on my notion of morphogenetic fields) was the idea that nature should be founded on the model of the organism and not on the model of the machine.

Her own sympathies, at least with respect to causation, focus upon Whitehead's early philosophy of nature: «I now find myself distanced from his later writings, but increasingly sympathetic to the middle ones [e.g. SMW], especially as he was working towards a generalized notion of «organism,» and when his «passage of nature» could be seen not as one datum after another, but as a pattern - forming and pattern - sustaining process which could support a dynamic view of a causation underlying more restricted kinds» (CE vii).

What makes the process - relational view different from most organismic interpretations, as we have seen, is, first of all, the notion that unique individuals do create themselves and their societies, as profoundly shaped as they are by them, instead of being subsumed by an omnicompetent and all knowing state that functions as the brain of the organism.

The idea that the simplest organism may not have come first upends the popular notion of an evolutionary march toward complexity.

Winston covers all the bases, from Lamarck «s notions on the origins of simple organisms through to the intricacies of genetics, and he also touches on speciation, shrinking biodiversity, genetic drift, even the ethics of selecting «desirable» traits in your children.

About 25 million mice are used in laboratories around the world to test new drugs and new notions about the biochemical machinery of living organisms.

Back in the wild and wacky 19th century, some scientists held a notion called recapitulation theory, which claimed embryonic development followed the branches of an organism's ancient evolutionary tree, from, say, fish to lizard to dog to human.

Turning the hypothetical notion of a hive mind into a functioning organism, The Hive Mind is a performative installation exhibit in which artworks are curated as points in a nonlinear narrative scene

«I saw a poetic contradiction in the notion that some of the smallest organisms in the world were reclaiming the instruments of much larger organisms.

The notion that Lovelock promoted was «the evolution of the Earth as a planetary organism» — it might apply to Pandora, the Avatar world with the sentient biosphere, but what we really have here is what Steven Schneider called the «Co-evolution of climate and life», which seems to be a much clearer way of looking at it.