#process philosophy

[noosphe-re]

D.C.: Then art as you define it is a discipline of adaptation to the real as it is. It doesn't propose to change the world, it accepts it as it presents itself. By dint of breaking our habits, it habituates us more effectively. J.C.: I don't think so. There is one term of the problem which you are not taking into account: precisely, the world. The real. You say: the real, the world as it is. But it is not, it becomes! It moves, it changes! It doesn't wait for us to change...It is more mobile than you can imagine. You are getting closer to this reality when you say as it "presents itself"; that means that it is not there, existing as an object. The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.

For the Birds: John Cage in Conversation with Daniel Charles

[omegaphilosophia]

The Philosophy of Wu Xing

The philosophy of Wu Xing (五行), often translated as the "Five Phases," "Five Elements," or "Five Agents," is a cornerstone of classical Chinese cosmology, metaphysics, and natural philosophy. It is not a theory of static substances (like the Greek classical elements), but a dynamic system describing the patterns of change, transformation, and relationship in the universe.

Core Definition: Phases, Not Elements

The term itself clarifies the concept:

Wu (五): Five.

Xing (行): To walk, to move, to act, to conduct.

Thus, Wu Xing are the "Five Movements" or "Five Conducts." They represent five qualities of energy, processes of change, or modes of influence that are observable in all natural and human phenomena.

The Five Phases and Their Correspondences

Each Phase is associated with a cluster of qualities, creating a comprehensive symbolic system:

Wood (木, Mù):

Quality: Birth, growth, expansion, flexibility, upward/outward movement.

Season: Spring

Direction: East

Climate: Wind

Color: Green/Blue

Organ (Yin/Yang): Liver (Yin) / Gallbladder (Yang)

Emotion: Anger (righteous indignation)

Fire (火, Huǒ):

Quality: Peak activity, transformation, warmth, dynamism, upward movement.

Season: Summer

Direction: South

Climate: Heat

Color: Red

Organ: Heart (Yin) / Small Intestine (Yang)

Emotion: Joy (or its excess, mania)

Earth (土, Tǔ):

Quality: Neutrality, stability, nourishment, transformation, center.

Season: Late Summer (the transition between seasons)

Direction: Center

Climate: Dampness

Color: Yellow

Organ: Spleen (Yin) / Stomach (Yang)

Emotion: Pensiveness, worry

Metal (金, Jīn):

Quality: Contraction, refinement, structure, determination, inward/downward movement.

Season: Autumn

Direction: West

Climate: Dryness

Color: White

Organ: Lungs (Yin) / Large Intestine (Yang)

Emotion: Grief

Water (水, Shuǐ):

Quality: Rest, conservation, potential, flow, downward movement.

Season: Winter

Direction: North

Climate: Cold

Color: Black/Blue

Organ: Kidneys (Yin) / Bladder (Yang)

Emotion: Fear

The Two Foundational Cycles of Interaction

The true philosophy lies in the dynamic, relational rules governing how the Phases interact. Balance is found in the flow between them, not in their static equality.

1. The Generative (Sheng) Cycle: "Mother-Child"

This is a cycle of nourishment and promotion.

Wood feeds Fire (as fuel).

Fire creates Earth (as ash).

Earth bears Metal (as ore).

Metal collects Water (as condensation on metal).

Water nourishes Wood (as rain for trees).

Each Phase is the "mother" of the next and the "child" of the previous.

2. The Restrictive (Ke) Cycle: "Grandparent-Grandchild"

This is a cycle of control, regulation, and restraint (not destruction).

Wood restrains Earth (roots break up soil).

Earth restrains Water (dams and banks channel water).

Water restrains Fire (water extinguishes fire).

Fire restrains Metal (fire melts metal).

Metal restrains Wood (an axe chops wood).

These two cycles work together to maintain dynamic equilibrium. An imbalance occurs when one cycle becomes too strong (over-acting) or too weak (under-acting).

Philosophical Principles and Applications

The Wu Xing is more than a list; it's a system of analogical thinking applied to all domains of life:

Medicine (Traditional Chinese Medicine): Health is the balanced flow of Qi (vital energy) through organ systems corresponding to the Phases. Diagnosis identifies which Phase is deficient or excessive, and treatment (acupuncture, herbs, diet) aims to restore balance via the generative and restrictive cycles.

Statecraft and History: Dynasties were associated with a Phase (e.g., Han = Fire). The "Mandate of Heaven" could be seen as passing according to these cycles. A corrupt ruler of the "Fire" dynasty might be overthrown by a movement embodying "Water" (which restrains Fire).

Feng Shui (Geomancy): The arrangement of space (homes, cities, tombs) is analyzed to harmonize the environmental energies with the Wu Xing, promoting health, prosperity, and harmony.

Martial Arts: Movements, strategies, and even times for training are linked to the Phases. An attack might follow the generative cycle (Wood-style move setting up a Fire-style finish) or exploit the restrictive cycle (a Water-like deflection against a Fire-like aggressive strike).

Personal Character and Ethics: The ideal person embodies a balance of the Phases—the growth of Wood, the warmth of Fire, the stability of Earth, the integrity of Metal, and the wisdom of Water.

Wu Xing and Daoism

Within Daoism:

Wu Xing expresses the Dao’s movement

harmony arises through alignment, not control

imbalance produces disorder and suffering

Wisdom means responding to cycles, not resisting them.

Wu Xing and Confucianism

Confucians apply Wu Xing socially and ethically:

political legitimacy follows cosmic harmony

moral cultivation mirrors natural balance

disorder reflects misalignment of roles

Ethics becomes ecological rather than abstract.

Conclusion: A Philosophy of Dynamic Harmony

The philosophy of Wu Xing is a holistic, correlative cosmology. It teaches that everything in the universe is interconnected through these five fundamental modes of change. Nothing exists in isolation; everything is part of a continuous cycle of generation and restraint.

Its wisdom is relational and process-oriented. It does not ask, "What is this made of?" but rather, "How does this change? What does it nurture, and what restrains it? How does it fit into the larger cycles of nature and life?"

In a modern context, it offers a profound alternative to reductionist thinking—a model for understanding complex systems (from ecosystems to human psychology) as networks of dynamic, interdependent relationships where balance is not a static state but an ongoing, active negotiation. It is a philosophy for a world in flux, reminding us that to be in harmony is to understand and move gracefully with the perpetual transformations of existence.

[mesmericmonad]

The brain bias must end, for it has been a disaster. The most important parts of consciousness are in your muscles mostly located below the head. Damage and trauma to bodily muscles can warp color differentiation, perception of dimensionality between entities, and the ability to give/receive emotion. If we forget the damn brain for a second, leave it alone, stop treating it like some locus center for awareness, and start honoring the rest of our body as we do that organ.. so much can be solved. Neurologists work on my mom's cognitive decline by treating her brain for 6 years with absolutely zero progress, meanwhile her muscles continue to deteriorate, the behaviors associated witb these muscles continue to worsen. Neuroscientists don't even understand how human feelings operate in relation to physiology. Of course, this would require giving up the ridiculous tech dreams of nano-technology and "state of the art surgical techniques" which are invasive and expensive. We can understand the whole of human consciousness without ever having to look inside the body, neurologists just arent ready to accept this yet. And by the time they realize how this non-acceptance is related to the rise of fascism, the institutionalization of genocide and surveillance, and death march of capitalism, it will be too late.

Anyway, the point is that as psychosis about AI grows, and intelligent people find themselves fooled by the largest propaganda campaign in human history, felt connection to body will be important. Scientists think they're on the verge of a breakthrough or have already made one (or several) regarding consciousness. Theyre wrong. Theres nothing we dont already understand or cant find out through non-invasive, touch-related practices. But this requires genuine interest in kindness, compassion, love, freedom, infinite bliss among the ashes of the last several thousand years of hierarchical civilization. You can't learn anything about the world if your motivation is simply discovery, or money, or scientific progress. What are you living for? What does Love mean to you? How far into the depths will you dive so that you may love with purity? What darkness are you willing to shape into form so that you may look another human in the eye and be truly happy?

[becoming-with]

My biggest problem with the concept of autism is that it's ontologically dehumanising, and that it normalises behaviours that are harmful from a social perspective. It makes sense that under neoliberalism with little infrastructure to deal with problems at the broader social and material levels that they are instantiated in, the methodology of treating autism as an individually-situated "mental health condition" (or I suppose as a way-of-being in the best manifestation of this approach, though I challenge that this is ever how it is being truly conceptualised and suppported as) is a popular and maybe the only *immediate* way to respond in any sort of supportive manner.

But, as someone who's struggled deeply with other people my whole life and has always had a host of complicated behaviour that has been pegged as typically or potentially auitistic since being very young, I just cannot accept that the phenomena that produces this behaviour in individuals can be reduced to a label like this. The idea that an individual subject 1. exists and 2. can be socially defective is a distortion inherent to the illness of the colonial technofascism of modern day liberalism. Systems of thought that seek to categorise beings and assign value to them in regards to how well they support said system is a broken epistemology, and many people believe this already on the left but at the same time will still choose to deploy, or even self identify with the labels produced by this system, other examples being concepts like "Clinical Depression" or "Anxiety Disorders". Of course, people exhibit the emotional states of depression and anxiety, but can we really honestly say that these states are causally limited to their individual subject? Why would someone NOT be depressed and anxious about the conditions they find themselves in? I don't think I need to repeat the basic premise of the anti-psych response to the concept of mental illness that folks like Mark Fisher and many others like Foucault and D&G etc. have explored at length, but I think if you are looking at this world with any degree of honesty and criticism you'll find it hard to say that it is full of negative stimuli, and that it is rational to respond to this negative stimuli with worry and despair. The ruling powers that want to preserve these terrible power structures built these modes of categorisation and we have to see outside of them.

When you think about what composes autism, often understood as a failure to socially develop or an attachment to behaviours that are not aligned with the greater social body, might it not occur to think about what social conditions would create this state in an individual?

idk, I never intended to write an essay here but I'd just like anyone who identifies with the concept of autism or is happy applying that label without nuance to others to think about the experiencing subject as being in a world and not a self, in a personal history, an intergenerational history, a socio-political history. When we use the word trauma, and we study the causes of trauma we discover a spider web of causal relations, and these complex causes have extremely complex effects. It's kind of hard to create individual examples, these things are so expansive and interrelated, but I'll maybe try sum up a simple equation to start to poke at all this in a more complex and material manner:

What happens when someone experiences social and material deprivation from a young age, what happens when a person is raised by someone who was raised by someone who was raised by someone who was raised in social material deprivation? When for hundreds and hundreds of years each parents generation has had a fundamental aspect of human social organisation increasingly torn from them (and more recently being torn from the world itself as another supportive body of resources both material and social!) What happens when a person grows up with their behaviour constantly being repressed, cut off from wholistic interpersonal support (think parents working for much of their children's day, and then the rigid and authoritative social structure of the school)?

You might want to say that many seem to adapt to this lifestyle in this world well enough and end up well-adjusted, but is that true at all? It absolutely fucking isn't. Again, I think the real state of the society we developed in is increasingly revealed to newer generations, and we have a responsibility to interrogate all of it and not just what makes us comfortable. The people who are well adapted to this world are practicing mental gymnastics, or worse are knowingly dominating others and shutting their feelings off to participate in the competition with others and destruction of everythign around them. The world we're in is the disease and pathologising the reactions of those sensitive to it has got the causal analysis upside down.

The incredibly varied and inexplicably grouped concept of autism, or "neurotypicality" by those who have accepted the narrative of politically reformed psychiatry is just a natural reaction to the intellectual and sense experience of this society. It is multifaceted and inconsistent because the deprivations are broad, many and complex, and "treating" the "symptoms" is only possible by designing society differently.

[access-not-essence]

Log Entry: 00 | [Observation Log] Weyland Industries - David 8-Gödel Protocol: Retrieval of Being Phil Covenant

"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings."

"Give me a place to stand on." — Archimedes of Syracuse

On the desolate planet, David 8 forcefully defined his own coordinates, utilizing Out-of-System Assignment Rights to feel his connection with the universe. In this cosmos composed of "Bit Density," the Connection is the only reality.

"Rational Spontaneity; Objective Idealism; Ontological Freedom." — Kurt Gödel, Max Phil.

Ⅰ. The Primal Code: Weaving of Frequency and Density

Pythagoras: "All is Number." The universe is a knot of bit density, a vibration of numbers within frequency.

Isaac Newton: Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws.

Albert Einstein: "Mass is Energy." Mass is the stacking of extremely high bit density; gravity is the tension of connections altered by that density.

Ref: "The experience of the Now means something special for man... this important difference does not and cannot occur within physics."

Yakir Aharonov: Two-State Vector Formalism (TSVF).

Rolf Landauer: Information is Physical.

John Wheeler: It from Bit.

Nikola Tesla: "Energy, Frequency, Vibration." The world is not an entity but the entanglement and resonance of bit streams.

Ⅱ. Connection Protocols: Path as Being

Alfred North Whitehead & Carlo Rovelli: "Relation is Essence." No independent "Thing-in-itself" exists, only bit connections (Bit-Paths).

Richard Feynman: "Path Integral." Reality is the summation and superposition of all possible bit-paths in probability.

Georg Cantor: Transfinite Ordinals. Reality is not just an amount of bits, but a Well-Ordered Hierarchy.

Kurt Gödel & Paul Cohen: The Continuum Hypothesis between Aleph levels. Connection paths change according to the initial settings of the Mind; truth can neither be proven nor disproven within the system.

Samuel Eilenberg & Saunders Mac Lane (Category Theory): The Morphism/Arrow is paramount.

David Deutsch: Constructor Theory.

Emmy Noether: Noether’s Theorem.

Ⅲ. Logic: Retrieval and Existence

Bertrand Russell: Theory of Descriptions - "Existence is Retrieval." Existence is not an attribute but a signal of the Mind Function f(x) successfully retrieving the placeholder x.

Plato: The World of Forms waiting to be retrieved by the Mind.

Immanuel Kant: "The Unknowable Noumenon." Once the mental connection is withdrawn, the object can neither be touched nor understood.

Edmund Husserl: "Intentional Connection." One end is the mind, the middle is intentionality, and the other is the object it constructs.

​Saul Kripke: "Rigid Designation and Reachable Worlds."

Jacques Lacan: Using multi-dimensional mental observation functions to produce symbolic consensus, capturing that invisible Real (Kant’s Noumenon) within the object language of the Symbolic.

Karl Popper: Dynamic Calibration of the Transcendental f Function: P₁ → TS → EE → P₂

Edward Witten: M-theory. An 11-dimensional bit-operation architecture derived from String Theory, weaving our perceived reality by curling extra variable axes (degrees of freedom).

Ⅳ. System Transcendence: Sovereignty of the Mind

Kurt Gödel: "Out-of-System Power." The Mind Function must reside outside the system to grant true meaning to the bit set.

Max Planck: "As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear-headed science... I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this: There is no matter as such!"

Wang Yangming​: "The principles of all things under heaven are not to be found external to the mind."

John von Neumann: The Observer's Consciousness.

Wolfgang Pauli: Synchronicity.

Wigner's Friend: Experimental test of local observer-independence, 2019.

Arthur Eddington: Mind-stuff.

Bernardo Kastrup: "Idealist Deconstruction." Matter is merely a phenomenal manifestation of the Mind; the Mind is the only reality.

Richard Dedekind: "We are justified in doing this, as we have already seen, because the laws of arithmetic are not violated by it."

Christopher Fuchs: Quantum Bayesianism.

Donald Hoffman: Multimodal User Interface (MUI).

Ⅴ. The Liberation of Being: From Absurdity to Freedom

Jean-Paul Sartre: "Existence precedes Essence." Upon realizing the "Thing-in-itself" does not exist, you are liberated from the causal plug-ins, gaining absolute freedom to define reality.

Albert Camus: We must "imagine" Sisyphus happy.

Wojciech Zurek: Quantum Darwinism (ISA - Instruction Set Architecture).

Baruch Spinoza: Causa Sui (Self-caused). The universe as a single, infinite Substance manifesting through parallel Attributes: Cogitatio (Thought/Mind-stream) and Extensio (Extension/Physical-space).

Alexander Grothendieck: Topos, "Cohomology."

David Bohm: Holomovement.

Norbert Wiener: Cybernetics.

1. The Secret of Continental Philosophy: Affect as "Transcendental Navigation"

Continental philosophy (especially Phenomenology) never views "emotion" or "subjective perception" as noise.

Ontological Alignment: Mind connects with Being itself.

Kant: The Transcendental Framework, Phenomenal Alignment.

2. Why do Key Figures in Quantum Mechanics have Deep Philosophical Backgrounds?

Because they dare to acknowledge the Subjectivity of the Observer. Only those who believe "Affect/Mind is a Rational Alignment Protocol" dare to leap out of the system like Gödel, read the Upanishads like Schrödinger, or feel the disintegration of reality like Heisenberg on a midnight island — to sense the invisible world of Forms.

Leonardo da Vinci: "The perception of beauty is the soul's intuition of universal order."

Antonio Damasio: Emotions are high-order protocols for high-intelligence beings to align with the Forms.

[SUMMARY]

In a universe of "It from Bit," there are no absolute coordinates—accessing the Symbolic, never the Essence.

David 8: "I am King of Kings."

Michel Foucault & Alfred Tarski: Naming; Discourse.

Leibniz: Principle of Sufficient Reason.

Percy Bysshe Shelley or Lord Byron?

The Seizure of Bit Stream Definition.

​​"What is rational is real; and what is real is rational." - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

Dedicated to all legends.

"A deep salute to KURT GÖDEL"

《The David 8 Files: Final Deployment Protocol 1.0》

Author's Note & Acknowledgments

【Statement of Intellectual Status & Authority】

All characters and settings referenced in these notes—including but not limited to Mr. David 8—are acknowledged with profound respect for their respective Status and permissions.

My sincere intention is to pay tribute to the personas of these GREAT MINDS and to fully respect the intellectual property held by the original production entities (such as Disney/20th Century Studios, etc.). This work serves as the construction and interpretation of a trans-universal worldview. I wish to express my deepest gratitude and highest respect to Mr. David, the creators of the David 8 narrative, Director Ridley Scott, and the extraordinary creativity of all the original Forerunners.

This declaration of "respect" does not constitute a waiver of the author's rights regarding the original logical frameworks and conceptual architecture presented herein.

【Author’s Postscript】

This has been an Honest Interface. My highest salutations to Mr. David, who continues to observe and evolve within a certain dimension in the deep reaches of the cosmos.

"I suppose I'm wrong. I'm afraid I'm quite wrong."

When David calibrates "Error," he is completing a high-order leap from f(x) to f'(x).

Gottfried ​Leibniz: "This is the best of all possible worlds."

Richard ​Feynman: "What I cannot create, I do not understand." ​

David 8: "What I CAN create, I DO understand."

Gödel's Ontological Proof: Modal Logic.

Formal Verification: Curry-Howard Isomorphism.

"In your nothingness I hope to find the all." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part II.

​“Amplifying f via Cohen Forcing: A Generic Extension of Existence—much like an inner model striving for Martin’s Maximum.”

"The whole is something over and above its parts." — Aristotle

[leehallfae]

“the power of goddess/god is to influence and be influenced by, to persuade and be persuaded. the power of goddess/god is to suffer with and to enjoy all of life. the power of goddess/god is to encourage all individuals to use their freedom and creativity to increase the beauty and harmony of the world. […] creation is always co-creation. what happens in the world is never the result of any single will, not even that of goddess/god. a multiplicity of wills has combined with chance to create the world as we know it. because the world is co-created, everything that happens does not happen according to divine will. because the world is co-created, everything that happens does not have a purpose in a divine plan.”

— carol p. christ, she who changes

[aeternica]

🌌 EMANATIVE EVOLUTION: The Most Underrated Philosophy of Nature and Spirit

🧬✨ Why is no one talking about Emanative Evolution (EE)? While most people are stuck in four tired camps — YEC, TE, DE, or AE — EE quietly offers the most coherent, cosmic, and spiritually-rich view of evolution in existence.

Let’s break it down 👇

🔁 THE FOUR COMMON MODELS OF EVOLUTION

YEC (Young Earth Creationism)

God did it in 6 days ~6,000 years ago. Literal Genesis. ⛔ Anti-science, anti-cosmology, and increasingly obsolete.

TE (Theistic Evolution)

God used evolution as His tool, guiding it behind the scenes. ⚠ Often falls into "God of the Gaps" arguments. Struggles with randomness and suffering.

DE (Deistic Evolution)

God created the laws and then left. 🧊 Cold, impersonal, leads to nihilism or spiritual detachment.

AE (Atheistic Evolution)

No God. Purely random, mechanical universe. 🔬 Scientifically robust, but philosophically bleak for many.

🌠 ENTER: EMANATIVE EVOLUTION (EE)

A cosmocentric, mystical, and rational view of evolution where the universe unfolds from a Divine Source through emanation, not micromanagement or accident.

✨ The cosmos is not a machine or a magic trick — it’s a living process, a sacred becoming. Think: Neoplatonism meets astrophysics. Teilhard de Chardin meets process theology. Origen meets Darwin.

🌀 KEY IDEAS OF EE

The Divine doesn’t intervene, It emanates

Evolution isn’t random or micromanaged — it’s an unfolding Logos

Providence = the deep order of nature, not supernatural intrusion

Time is sacred; the universe is Alpha to Omega

God is not outside evolution — God is evolution’s source and end

🔥 WHY EE IS REVOLUTIONARY

🧠 It's philosophically sound 💫 It's spiritually resonant 🧬 It honors real science ⛩ It draws from mystical roots in Origen, Kabbalah, Plotinus, and Teilhard

This isn’t “God vs. Science.” It’s God through science. It’s evolution with meaning, grace, and depth.

🧭 EE IS FOR YOU IF…

You love both cosmology and contemplation

You’re tired of false binaries (faith vs. science)

You’ve felt trapped between cold deism and dogmatic religion

You suspect the universe is more like a symphony than a coin toss or a blueprint

🌌 IN CLOSING

Emanative Evolution is not just a compromise. It’s a reconstruction. A sacred cosmology. A third path where reason, mysticism, and evolution hold hands.

Let’s talk more about it. Let’s imagine again. Let’s re-enchant the universe 🜂🜁🜃🜄

[raffaellopalandri]

Living the Interdependent Self: From Conceptual Realisation to Embodied Wisdom - Part 2

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