That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.
I teach metaphysics and pastor a church.
The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model.
Culture cannot be separated from politics. The arts, philosophy and metaphysics, religion and the sciences, constitute culture. Politics are the science or art of organizing our relationships to allow for the development of life in society.
Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.
The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics.
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
I believe in metaphysics. I don't believe in God because I think that is a human simplification of the things we can't explain. But I believe in a greater universe.
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.
