Update on R&M Section VI series
Essays 43 and 44 are written but need review.
Essay 45 is not written but its outline is completed.
The Whitehead section X was increased by one essay emphasizing feeling. And the subsequent essay could therefore be expanded in its panexperientialism and panpsychism discussion.
Section XVI (16)'s metaphysics and cosmology discussion added three new essays on fine-tuning and becoming.
Currently
Having recently completed relational reality in Section I-V, I wanted to compare its difference to competing philosophical views of reality. As this was being done I noticed that a "relational" tension was occuring between each perspective providing a kind of dialectical movement between the opposing views without having to imposed relationality upon the developing essay structure. Which means that while relational reality sits quietly in the background, the series itself is revealing what becomes visible when the question of reality is begun somewhere else than where we ended it in Section V.
R&M Section 6 Structure
41 - Process? → happening/becoming as fundamental (Whitehead)
42 - Physical? → physicalist reality as fundamental (Science)
43 - Two? → mind v matter as irreducibly distinct (Dualism)
44 - Mind? → mental/experiential reality as fundamental (Idealism)
45 - One? → whether multiplicity ultimately belongs to one reality (Monisam; Spinoza)
Through each essay their sequence is asking:
What If Reality Is Fundamentally Physical? (Matter/Physicalism)
What If Reality Is Fundamentally Progressive? (Process)
What If Reality Is Fundamentally Dualist (Mind v Matter)?
What If Reality Is Fundamentally Idealist? (Mind/Mental)
What If Reality Is Fundamentally Monist? (One/Unity)