{"id":1293,"date":"2010-06-14T23:59:10","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T04:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/06\/14\/potentially-real\/"},"modified":"2010-06-14T23:59:10","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T04:59:10","slug":"potentially-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/06\/14\/potentially-real\/","title":{"rendered":"potentially real&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s just a blog post, but <a href=\"http:\/\/aivakhiv.blog.uvm.edu\/2009\/11\/kauffman_coming_to_vermont.html\">Stuart Kauffman<\/a> is drawing on Whitehead and Peirce to propose a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/13.7\/2010\/05\/21\/127032176\/the-actual-the-possible-and-what-s-real?ft=1&amp;f=114424647\">view of reality<\/a> that sounds intriguingly like Deleuze&#8217;s distinction between the Virtual and the Actual. He folds over Descartes to make a new dualism: <em>Res extensa<\/em> and <em>Res potentia<\/em>. In other words, a Process Dualism (that, being processual, is really a monism). I&#8217;m <a href=\"http:\/\/aivakhiv.blog.uvm.edu\/2009\/02\/shaviro_on_kauffman.html\">glad<\/a> to see it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s just a blog post, but Stuart Kauffman is drawing on Whitehead and Peirce to propose a view of reality that sounds intriguingly like Deleuze&#8217;s distinction between the Virtual and the Actual. He folds over Descartes to make a new dualism: Res extensa and Res potentia. In other words, a Process Dualism (that, being processual, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[688977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geo_philosophy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-kR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1105,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2009\/07\/28\/spinozas-parakeets-sparrows-roses\/","url_meta":{"origin":1293,"position":0},"title":"Spinoza&#8217;s parakeets, sparrows, &amp; roses","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"July 28, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Today, my last day in Amsterdam, I finally made it to the monument unveiled last year honoring Baruch de Spinoza. 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