“It’s what I like to call ‘retrospective induction.’ Working backward from your experience all the way down in nature. So [the question is] can you find dimensions of your experience spread out through the natural world all the way down to the lowest level of things, whatever they are? […] And the answer is, yes, in some sense we have to do that. That doesn’t mean a bacterium is some sort of human. It means that the principles of human experience are dimly exemplified throughout a continuum of nature. And that’s a beautiful thing because it means that we belong here. In some sense, we exemplify nature and nature exemplifies dimensions of our own experience.” –Andrew Davis

Great interview with Andrew Davis over at Homebrewed Christianity. Tripp and Andrew discuss lots of fun Whitehead stuff, which also happens to be the subject of his book, Mind, Value, and Cosmos: On the Relational Nature of Ultimacy.

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