Perspectives on reality as processes and event – from Heidegger to non-duality and beyond

This Perspectives on reality as processes and event – from Heidegger to non-duality and beyond project at University of Dundee seeks to addresses fundamental issue by developing a way of thinking, a language or a conceptual scheme, that is adequate to the networked complexity that current conceptual resources simply cannot grasp.

The key premise of this Perspectives on reality as processes and event – from Heidegger to non-duality and beyond project at University of Dundee is that our conceptual resources and the way we think, conceptualise and argue, are not capable to come to terms with all this emerging interrelated dynamism: overall they remain predicated on stable, individual entities, and therefore tend to devalue or even ignore the relational and dynamic aspects of our world.

Context

What if our reality was fundamentally dynamic and interrelated – a process? Current developments in both science and technology provide abundant data and arguments for such a dynamic reconceptualization of reality. Our world is proving to be a dynamic process unfolding across all scales, from subatomic particles to galaxies. Living beings are processes that stand in complex, co-constitutive, reciprocal, evolving relations, jointly forming malleable, changing, and evolving environments, niches and biospheres. These insights, as well as the impact of digital technologies, and the current move from economies of ownership to sharing economies, shows the need for a shift in the way we view and engage with material resources, life, nature and reality.

This project is an invitation to explore the dynamic and complex nature of reality by drawing upon the works of seminal process thinkers such as:

• Heraclitus

• Nietzsche

• Bergson

• Heidegger

• Whitehead

• Deleuze