Thanks Matt these videos are excellent.

Reality is composed of occasions of experience which could be simplified as positive and negative experiences. Now a Self is a domain of particular group of positive and negative experiences. Consciousness is the process which underlies emergence of different kinds of identities from these positive and negative experiences. This process involves learning of bodily and mental faculties, in an emergent manner.

this was really good

Smartest man on KZread:)

Praful's ideas fly about 10,000 ft over my head. Whitehead's scheme, as expounded by Matt, sometimes seems to swoop in as low as about 150ft. It also seems to chime intuitively in so far as I can comprehend it. One aspect that seems somehow counterintuitive is the notion of occasions of experience as discrete units which is at odds with an instinct to conceive of ontological process as continuous flux.

I'm not clear on what kinds of models Praful is running. I caught that they are monte carlo models, which include, at least, enzymes, so is he modeling phase spaces for particles in chemical reactions?

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I don't understand this opposition to creationism. I mean I do understand it, as long as we conceive of creation as it is understood by humans (i.e. our currently anthropomorphised understanding of creativity. "Currently" in the previous sentence is meant to evoke that our understanding isn't finished.)