What is Process Philosophy?

The world (this is cosmology, so I mean “universe”) is fundamentally a gigantic concatenation of interwoven processual activity.  The old way was to think of the world as made of “stuff” because this is what our visual and tactile inspection gives us…stuff.  But this stuff is really only an abstraction from something more basic and more real.  An atom isn’t a “thing” it’s a process.  A tree is an abstraction from a larger process: we pull a frame in the movie and freeze it, and nature undergoing a process halts briefly for us and we see an object, a tree.  But the tree we’re looking at now (tree “B”) started as another tree (tree “A”), in the past; it was a small plant, and grew and changed according to a series of processes, bore fruit, that fruit fell to the ground, germinated, continued it’s process, and now we see it as a tree, and soon it will fall away and dissolve into a myriad of other processes.  Substitute any word for “tree” (such as desk, lamp, electron, star, piece of toilet paper, etc.).

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