If it is true that present events create themselves out of
passive past causes, then the present rock produces itself.
Instead of an active cause producing a passive effect, he argues that there is a present event producing itself out of its
passive past causes.
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Therefore, if A causes B, B prehends A. B is constituted by the way in which it prehends A and all its
other past causes.
For if one argues that
past causes produce the effect, this purports to be a total explanation.
We may be mistaken in supposing there is a symmetry here, but it would seem that if we can talk of a causal relationship between a present effect and an already
perished past cause, we can also talk of a causal relationship between a present cause and a yet to be actualized effect.
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Meanwhile, a nearly broken Lomax has found a love with Patti Wallace (Kidman, Stoker), a Canadian nurse he meets, by coincidence, on a train, but his persistent flashbacks and nightmares to his
agonizing past cause struggles with their relationship in the present that she has resolved to see him through.
Everything is happening according to the «drawing»
[past causes], You just have to «see» them.
So dusty that it has been causing some people to have breathing issues and due to a road detour, extra cleaning work for many as a steady stream of traffic
re-routes past them causing continuous clouds.
Suppose we take this process and generalize and say the nature of reality is events or processes which are created by the present unifying of themselves out of the possibilities of
passive past causes.
Rather the effect (present event) produces itself out of the possibilities of the passive
past causes and also out of the possibilities of eternal potentials.
Instead of past things causing present things, Whitehead suggests that present events create themselves out of passive
past causes.
This view contrasts with the more common view that
the past causes the present.
In Whitehead the present events create themselves out of passive
past causes.
The self - production of self - creation is the unifying process achieved through inclusion, exclusion, intensifying, or de-intensifying of all passive
past causes and all possible possibilities.
The event is not determined by God because it is capable of using
the past causes it inherits to modify that aim.
One simply has to exhibit what
the past causes are in order to explain the present event.
The locus of productive activity thereby shifts from
the past causes to the present event, which is active in virtue of its own power.
The past causes determine the content of the present actuality, but only as this content is appropriated and unified by the present activity.
But that would make it impossible for us to talk about a causal relationship between a present effect and
a past cause, under the assumption that the past cause is now no longer in existence.
Dynamic process occurs as, and is structured by, a tripartite pattern: every new event is a present self - causation, responding to
past causes, vectorially felt, In terms of future potentialities grasped.
Now, you might wonder if there was something in
my past that caused this crazy response that you can't comprehend (and you would be right), but would it hurt your feelings if you like peaches that I respond this way?
The rupture between modern Germany and
its past caused by the Third Reich and the subsequent division of the German people into two nations profoundly affected the life and art of German Expressionist artist Georg Baselitz.
Really, you have to get past this kind of is - must - be fallacy — where we are is the result of
past causes; there are alternative paradigms.
Collisions with other ships, fires on board, rouge waves, and severe weather storms that lead to flooding and sinking are among
the past causes of cruise ship tragedies.