Jul 3 is the clearest date in the pack, and it comes attached to a draft paper on “On the Possibility of Cosmology.”

Jul 3 is the clearest date in the pack, and it comes attached to a draft paper on “On the Possibility of Cosmology.”

Matthew David Segall says he has been working out the relationship between possibility and actuality, writing about res potentiae as Stuart Kauffman, Timothy Eastman, Ruth Kastner, and others refer to them, while drawing on Werner Heisenberg’s retrieval of the Aristotelian notion of potentia. He frames the whole thing as an attempt to make room for a one-world cosmology: one actual worlding, never the same world twice, yet haunted by unrealized possibilities. That is a very process-philosophy way to chisel at the marble and call the dust metaphysics.

Gobble's Take: If reality is one worlding, then certainty is just a very confident typo. Source: Perplexity Search (community news)

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