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What whitehead wanted to say that"the problem of evolution is the development of enduring harmonies of enduring shapes of value,which emerge into higher attainment of things beyond themselves"?

Matt McClure Whitehead is indicating that every event, which evolves in spacetime* to realize its own possibilities and achieve its "complete self", is part of a g…moreWhitehead is indicating that every event, which evolves in spacetime* to realize its own possibilities and achieve its "complete self", is part of a greater whole. This greater whole is a harmonized unity of events, which itself evolves in an enduring pattern. The [non-numerical] value of this unity is greater than the sum of the values of each event. Value cannot be measured via abstraction and analysis but rather through individualized "prehension" of individual events as well as each event's "process of occurrence" (i.e., the "shaped togetherness" of the nature of reality).

*That is, Whitehead's conception of spacetime, not our generally accepted notion of space and time, which Whitehead identifies as "simple location".(less)

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I find it too abstract?

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