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Understanding organizations as Whiteheadian societies

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posted on 2023-05-22, 12:30 authored by Dibben, MR

Process physics (Cahill, 2005; Jungerman, 2000) is, like all physics, a model of reality. However, unlike traditional substance-based versions, process physics implements many process philosophical concepts, perhaps most notably, the notion of internal relations. It argues that the universe can best be understood in terms of self-referential semantic information that is remarkably similar to mathematical stochastic neural networks research in biology. It argues that information patterns generate new information through causal efficacy and, ultimately internal integration, generating selforganising patterns of relationships that have an intrinsic value inherent in their self-actualisiation and which thereby experience a subjective unity in response to influences from the totality of their past. The result is an internally related self-organising stream of experiences that provides a defining essence objectively distinguishable in abstraction and as exhibiting all the characteristics of a quantum space and quantum matter.

Tn process physics, therefore, quantum phenomena emerge where no prior assumption regarding their existence is made or prescribed at the start, but rather where they are internally generated as an inherent feature of an experientially becoming reality, growing in size over time and thus having an observable key feature--i.e. a 'defining essence'-of an expanding universe. Reality itself is now understood-and modelled-as having a primitive form of self awareness, i.e. prehensions of other actualities as objects in terms of their provocation of some special activity within the subject (AT 176) and which, in more biologically complex information systems, ultimately leads to experiential integration as conscious discrimination of contrasts in prior experiences. Reality is, ultimately, not about the identification of isolated individuals through externality, but related individuals through internality.

History

Publication title

Applied Process Thought 1: Initial Explorations in Theory and Research

Editors

Dibben, M. & Kelly, T.

Pagination

329-347

ISBN

978-3938793756

Department/School

TSBE

Publisher

Ontos Verlag

Place of publication

Frankfurt/Lancaster

Extent

10

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Copyright Ontos Verlag 2008

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  • Restricted

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Management and productivity not elsewhere classified

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