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• The author, H.J. Mac Gillavry.

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my proposal

Clearly it is again time to return to earth. Hence my new proposal to look at the universe as a growing four-dimensional body, which grows by means of processes, many of which leave `records'.
I introduce the notion record, which has a much wider application than Whitehead's `actual entities'. It also refers to `eternal objects', prehensions and memories.
Whitehead and Burgers give priority to the actual entities, on which the processes act, changing them into new actual entities.
I give priority to the processes, leaving records.

This means that at a certain locality a new process may have no relation to what went on there before.
Here I introduce the element of interference.

I agree with Whitehead that the future has no material existence. All anticipation, prediction, prophesy and preparing for things to come, making of time-tables, etc. are processes in the present.
All thinking and other mental processes, that do not lead to action, but to a preservation in memory, are also processes in the present, leaving memories as records.

For the rest my thinking, though clearly influenced by Whitehead, has developed to the new vision presented in this website.
I restrict the word `organism' to living beings. And I restrict mental processes to the appearance of a mind sufficiently evolved to contain the element intention.

Whitehead would not have minded:
In (W4, p. 114) he wrote:
"I am fond of pointing out to my pupils that to be refuted in every century after you have written is the acme of triumph".
This is the first century after he wrote.

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