[MD] The Trouble With Wilber

[Krimel]

dmb said to David M:
And I'd seriously like to know what you mean by "the sphere of the 
possible". Where did you get this notion?

David M replied:
The 'sphere of the possible' is my preferred way to refer to the reality of 
the possibilities that any
situation makes available. This is what DQ is I'd suggest. The best 
philosophical use of this concept to help explain reality-experience is in 
Whitehead...

David M quoted from the Sneddon paper:
"Whitehead calls these possibilities 'eternal objects'. ...these eternal 
objects reside, available for creativity, in what Whitehead names the 
'primordial nature of god'."

dmb says:
Oh, I see. You've been talking some kind of Platonic theism. No wonder I 
smelled bullshit. Seriously. This is unsupportable, unknowable, ridiculous 
stuff. Don't you think? Eternal objects that reside in the bossom of god? 
Puh leeez.

But thanks for making it clear. I really do appreciate that.

[Krimel]
Oh right, you can sum everything Whitehead had to say into two sentences.
That makes him easy to dismiss. Given the title of the thread and your
avowed love of Wilber I thought it was a given that you liked bullshit. That
smell is probably coming from your upper lip.