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Whitehead was a logician and mathematician so he did not (to my knowledge) believe in ESP in the usual sense. In my previous post, I opined that Whitehead did not mean that Magical ESP could reveal information & knowledge via non-physical channels. But perhaps there is another option. I've seen him...

Whitehead was a logician and mathematician so he did not (to my knowledge) believe in ESP in the usual sense. I assumed that he was not talking about magical Extrasensory Perception, but I'm still grasping at an understanding of " knowledge that is obtained by means 'outside' of sense perception "*...

So it won't be a discussion unless you put something forward other than disputes about the various uses of experience , try " prehension " for the idea instead but you will likely have to look it up. I'm still not clear about Whitehead's distinction of "Prehension" from "Comprehension". Some defini...

↪prothero Gnomon --- "Did Whitehead believe in extra-sensory perception*3? Based on what evidence?" In an attempt to answer my own question, I have started reading ANW's The Concept of Nature https://brocku.ca/MeadProject/Whitehead/Whitehead_1920/White1_02.html The lecture goes on for several pages,...

From the Pinocchio Theory Whitehead on Causality and Perception by Steven Shaviro Not too long maybe 15 pages, I find Shaviro to be an unusually clear and perceptive author about Whitehead and several others as well http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=1274 — prothero Human sense-perception, limited in m...

We wonder about the implementation of mind and consciousness, and, while interesting, that is only about the nature of the messenger , the implementation; however, there is the message that the messenger brings to us. The potential for what we have now had to be there in the beginning. — PoeticUniv...

Whitehead implies we interact with nature in other ways and have forms of knowledge that come to us from outside of “the sense perception theory of knowledge”. — prothero Back when I read Process and Reality, I didn't com-prehend much of the non-standard vocabulary coined to express his novel & non...

It seems we are both monists of various persuasions and reject dualism . I think our conceptions and language for our positions may make it difficult to find common ground or terminology.. Do you entertain the notion of panpsychism ? Are you familiar with the basic elements of process philosophy ? ...

Suffice it to say, although Whitehead had great admiration for Hume and Kant as well as Descartes, but he felt they set Western Philosophy upon an unfortunate path.One which leads directly to the “ bifurcation of nature ” with the subjective/objective and mind/matter dichotomy. Whitehead implies we...

“On Whitehead’s account, a tree has feelings – but they are probably quite different from the feelings that human beings have. A tree may well feel assaulted, for instance; we know that trees (and other plants) release pheromones when insects start eating their leaves. These emissions both act as a...