Memory in a Whiteheadian Perspective |
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Authors: | John B Cobb Jr |
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Institution: | Center for Process Studies , Claremont , California , USA |
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Abstract: | Whitehead does not provide us with a systematic account of the various types of experience to which the word “memory” is applied. Nevertheless, he does provide us with a way of understanding the world, and living creatures who inhabit it, that places the discussion in a different context from the usual one: the diverse features of human experience that we call memory are developed forms of basic patterns of relationship that characterize all actual entities. I will first review the relevant features of Whitehead's conceptuality, then contrast the resulting view with its usual formulation, and then speculate about some forms of memory in Whiteheadian categories. |
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Keywords: | Bodily memories hypnosis imaginative reconstruction memory process philosophy |
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