Art is Life: There is nothing less than God, and "it only gets better"(Cocktail w/Tom Cruise):
Panentheism....
Panpsychism and Animistic Interactionism
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(Pic: The Temptation of Adam and Eve, by Michelangelo)
"Like the emergent evolutionists noted above, the philosopher Henri Bergson, Alfred North Whitehead, and Charles Hartshorne have emphasized the novelty evident at all levels of the universe. Each in his own way has called into question both commonsense notions and philosophical doctrines that the fundamental units of the pphysical world a are devoid of creativity. Theologian David Griffin , who has developed certain ideas proposed by Whitehead and Hartshorne, wrote:
For Whitehead, creativity is the ultimate reality of which all things are instances. This means that the basic things or entities are events, spatio-temporal processes of becoming. Whitehead's view not only generalized the Einsteinian notion of the convertibility of matter and energy, but also employed another basic Einsteinian notion, which is that space and time are inseparable. One cannot speak of space and time as separate, but only of space-time, or time-space. Whitehead's way of explaining this idea is that the things comprising the world are not essentially nontemporal things that just happen to be in time. They are essentially spatio-temporal events. They take - or make - time, as well as space, to occur. There is no "nature at an instant" - taking instant in the technical sense as having no duration or temporal extension. There are also no actualities devoid of spatial extension. All actualities are temporal-spatial events. Whitehead therefore says that all actual entities are "actual occasions". No actual things simply endure passively. Each real thing is a spatio-temporal happening.
These actual occasions or events can be extremely brief, with hundreds, thousands, millions, or even billions within a second. Things that endure, such as electrons, atoms, molecules, cells , and minds, are each comprised of a series of brief events.
Moments in the life history of an electron, a cell, and a human being obviously differ immensely in terms of the forms they embody. But they all have one thing in common; each is an instance of creativity. Creativity is in this sense the ultimate reality, that which all actualities embody. All actual entities are thereby creative events"
pgs 183-184, "The Future of the Body: Explorations Into the Further Evolution of Human Nature" Authored and Published by Michael Murphy
1992