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Single Idea 24501

[catalogued under 7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 2. Processes]

Full Idea

John Dupré has argued that all living organisms should be characterised as processes rather than as entities.

Gist of Idea

Dupré sees all organisms as processes, not entities

Source

report of John Dupré (The Disorder of Things [1993]) by Mazviita Chirimuuta - The Brain Abstracted 7.1

A Reaction

Not unreasonable, if that is how we understand a river. But then where is the boundary between processes and entities (given, for example, quantum fluctuations)? I think it is mad, or at least inconvenient, to give up on entities. I am not an entity?

Book Reference

Mazviita Chirimuuta: 'The Brain Abstracted' [MIT 2024], p.188