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Very little to do with Whitehead’s system other than being broadly “process” oriented.


“process philosophy posits transient occasions of change or becoming as the only fundamental things of the ordinary everyday real world.”

I think you need to read more Daoist writings! It possesses that it is the transformation of yin into yang and back that creates everything in the world.

https://www.heraldopenaccess.us/openaccess/yin-yang-a-method...

The discovery that the motion of matter is not the result of external dynamics, but the result of the action of things themselves. The mutual movement, growth and transformation of yin and yang in natural things contribute to the process of formation, development and decay. All things in nature, from the large celestial universe to microscopic particles and human cell, are in constant motion in their own yin and yang. This uniform law is the absolute law of motion of the universe as a whole.

And

https://www.openhorizons.org/daoism-and-process-the-daoist-s...


Yes, again, Whitehead has a particular system that is pretty different from Taoism. It's a little more complicated than a Wikipedia summary sentence.


As is Daoism! More complicated!


Okay, Heraclitus might be a stretch, I'll give you that. But I do recommend giving the Tao Te Ching a read with Whitehead in mind. :)




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