Need a new front cover

What about a paint by number/ partially erased/ partially drawn/ partially colored drawing of ANW with the tools (eraser, pencil, brush) visible?

Adventures of Ideas Redux

AOI pages need to be resorted to follow book...

Roughs for graphic novel underway

It has started. The roughs for the graphic book on Whitehead are coming along. Older blog entries are being revised, current entries are undergoing fact checking, text is being edited and drafts are being printed. Should be done before 2012 with any luck!

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The use of the derivative and tensor

Whitehead, comparing the process of mathematics to the process of the world, connected derivatives to change and used ideas in calculus to express the current understanding of reality, a relativist dynamic. Whitehead also worked in higher form geometry. He connected the extensive properties of tensors to describe the geometry of that change.

Whitehead as Mathematician

Mathematicians work in a world between Science and Metaphysics, between proximal and ultimate causes. Whitehead worked as a scientist, mathematician and philosopher, finding commonality between these fields.

Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power in this field.— Paul A.M. Dirac (1902-1984), English physicist.

Whitehead's work in the second book of Principia Mathematica (Principles of Mathematics), a seminal work on the foundations of all mathematics, is indicative of the expression of his thought throughout his works. One deceptively simple but powerful entry ties together the abstract (the number "1") with the reality of a singular unity in the real world in the equation 1+1=2. This connection of the propositional and the actual provided the ground for all ideas and actualities, rendering them all 'forms' of process, tying them all into a continuum and ending the need for dualism.

Extending this work, the actual and the propositional are dynamic elements of the same process, one an instantaneous and the other a derivative expression, linked by a calculus of changes as experienced in the real world. Everything flows through states of balance, a punctuated equilibrium, yet never divided in time.

Whitehead joined the sensible and transcendent -- the pragmatic and aesthetic -- sign and referent -- past, present and future into a cohesive unity. He asks us, "How many realities can there be?"

Four Whitehead process concepts that connect to Buddhism

Corelessness (also called Emptiness)
Interbeing
Transitoriness
and
Mutual Arising

(to be expanded on)

Language and Reality

As a grammarian, the role of language for Whitehead was as a mirror that reflected reality. You could partially understand reality by this reflection but the reflection is not the reality. Language is a subset or a flattening of the experience like a mirror that shows two dimensions of a three dimensional world. The limits of language, therefore, are not the limits of reality.