Lecture One: Why Life is All Process

In this lecture, Professor Dupré will introduce the view of life as process that he has been defending for the last 15 years. He will explain the difference between a world of process and a world of things (or, as philosophers have sometimes called them, substances), and show how the former fits better with our current understanding of the history of the universe. Professor Dupré will then explain why familiar living systems, especially organisms, must be seen as processes. More specifically, his propose that organisms, and a fortiori humans, are open-ended and persistent processes.

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