Whitehead’s argument is
not that space and time don’t exist: they are simply secondary appearances, not the
main feature of objective reality.  In denouncing the fallacy of simple location
Whitehead is asserting that no entity, nor any man, is an island. Every time we move,
or think, we disturb the whole universe.  As St. Paul wrote, we are members of one
another.  That is what the Jewel Net of Indra means.  It fits well with the quantum
mechanical view that the observer and the observed are entangled into one, even while
they possess unique personal selves.

I’ve been reading this great writing about Alfred North Whitehead by Richard Lubbock. Check it out. 

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