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Death, Entropy, Creativity and Perpetual Perishing: Some Thoughts from Whitehead and Stengers

机译:死亡,熵,创造力和永恒灭亡:怀特海和斯登格的一些想法

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In this paper, I argue that we need to rethink how we conceive of death as ?inevitable?. There are two main strands to my analysis. First, I use the work of Stengers to trace the complex and, occasionally, contradictory ways in which the concept of entropy was developed within physics in the 19th and 20th century. I argue that this has led to a general but ill-conceived notion of the universe as wasting away, as dying. This is a form of inevitability which has infected our understanding of what constitutes the death of individual humans. I then turn to the contrast that Whitehead draws between creativity and ?perpetual perishing?. I suggest that this contrast might help us to develop a wider, more coherent, approach to thinking about the status of death, and its supposed inevitability. In the final section, I reflect upon my father?s death in 2013 in light of some of the concepts and problems raised throughout the paper.
机译:在本文中,我认为我们需要重新考虑我们如何将死亡视为“不可避免的”。我的分析有两个主要方面。首先,我使用Stengers的工作来追溯19世纪和20世纪物理学中发展熵的概念,这些方法有时是相互矛盾的。我认为,这导致了一个普遍的但概念不周的概念,即宇宙正在消亡,垂死。这是不可避免的一种形式,已经感染了我们对构成个体死亡的理解。然后,我转向怀特海(Whitehead)在创造力和“永久灭亡”之间得出的对比。我建议这种对比可能有助于我们发展一种更广泛,更连贯的方法来思考死亡的状况及其假定的必然性。在最后一节中,我会根据整篇论文提出的一些概念和问题,回顾一下我父亲于2013年去世的情况。

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    Halewood M;

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