FILM FESTIVAL that makes sense

"The community of actual things is an organism; but it is not a static organism. It is an incompletion in process of production."

This face belongs to ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD or as his friends called him "guy with no NACHLASS."

All of his papers were destroyed, per his request, after he died and thus no NACHLASS.

When a scholar, who is proficient in mathematics, logic, physics, metaphysics, education, philosophy and theology, and who gets invited to teach at Harvard at the age of 63, where he spends the rest of his life, decides that all of his papers should be destroyed upon his death......

SIWWTP

(please refer to 01-03 article for clarification or figure it out)

Just because Claremont College has a film festival honoring his existence does not make up for the fact that he lacked some extremely important level of self-esteem.

http://whiteheadfilmfestival.org/

I'm sure that if you attend the festival there will be people who can pontificate

on the various reasons why Alfred

did what he did.

I just learned about the guy in this morning's newspaper so

there's no way I can claim to know

what happened in his life that would lead him

to tell his family to destroy all of his papers

upon his death.

BUT

I do have a small clue.

THE FOLLOWING EXCERPT IS FROM WIKIPEDIA

In physics, Whitehead articulated a rival doctrine to Einstein's general relativity. His theory of gravitation is now discredited because its predicted variability of the gravitational constant G disagrees with experimental findings.^[3] A more lasting work was his Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge (1919), a pioneering attempt to synthetize the philosophical underpinnings of physics. It has little influenced the course of modern physics, however.

When a brilliant man puts all of his faith in Issac Newton then the rug can be pulled out from underneath him. The gravity of his gravitational concrescence was just too much for him and

he never recovered from the humble pie in which he had to dine on for the rest of his life.

I think it's time to attend the ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD FILM FESTIVAL and hang out with people who realize that a couple of errors in judgement should never finalize who you are.

(again with the Wikipedia)

Process philosophy (or ontology of becoming) identifies metaphysical reality with change and dynamism. Since the time of Plato andAristotle, philosophers have posited true reality as "timeless", based on permanent substances, whilst processes are denied or subordinated to timeless substances. If Socrates changes, becoming sick, Socrates is still the same (the substance of Socrates being the same), and change (his sickness) only glides over his substance: change is accidental, whereas the substance is essential. Therefore, classic ontology denies any full reality to change, which is conceived as only accidental and not essential. This classical ontology is what made knowledge and a theory of knowledge possible, as it was thought that a science of something in becoming was an impossible feat to achieve ^[1].

On the contrary, Process philosophy, or an ontology of the becoming, does not characterize change as illusory or as purely accidental to the substance, as in Aristotle's thought, but as the cornerstone of reality, or Being (thought as Becoming)

ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD FILM FESTIVAL probably has made some very interesting choices in their selection of films....IF INDEED the founders of the festival share any or all of Professor Whitehead's viewpoints.

I'D FIND IT RATHER STRANGE IF THEY DIDN'T.

JANUARY 15-18

Michael Timothy McAlevey