Physical Determinism

Existing state
Necessitated by
Preceding states

In the center of the city, two clouds drift by an underground parking entrance.

“Experience admits that there always is some relation between the existing state of consciousness and any new state to which consciousness passes.” – Henri Bergson

Half Moon

Feel the presence
Sharply differentiated
Discriminating perception

The near fragments the far and distinguishes attributes of the sections.

“There is a present-whole of nature of which our detailed knowledge is dim and mediate and inferential, but capable of determination by its congruity with clear immediate perceptual facts.” – Alfred North Whitehead

Present Duration

Primary recognition
Partial partition
Amid events

Fragmenting segmentation increases geometric complexity.

“Objects enter into experience by way of the intellectuality of recognition.” – Alfred North Whitehead

Recognition Leads

Percipient object
Awareness unity
Classification event

Reflective surfaces can interact in dynamic relationships.

“Owing to the temporal duration of the immediate present the self-knowledge of the percipient object is a knowledge of the unity of the consciousness within other parts of the immediate present.” – Alfred North Whitehead

Interpretive Experience

Periodic process
Statically complete
Hermeneutic renewal

A complex system presents itself in a port city with both speculative and metaphysical overtones.

“Intersecting events are necessarily joined; but the notion of junction is wider than that of intersection, for it is possible for two separated events to be joined.” – Alfred North Whitehead

Honey Whytes

Old time
Sour mash
Jager bomb

Working with space compression in a differential reflective and transmissive environment opens possibilities.

“Intentionality is this continually renewed project of consciousness by which consciousness achieves an accord with the object before all reflection.” – Mikel Dufrenne

Immediate Fact

Observed continuity
Material persistence
Existence duration

Color and texture distinguish themselves in the city.

“Accordingly it is admitted that the ultimate fact for observational knowledge is perception through a duration; namely, that the content of a specious present, and not that of a durationless instant, is an ultimate datum for science.” – Alfred North Whitehead

Definite Course

Joint effort
Context unified
Connection stream

In the city, interesting unplanned but synergistic design relationships manifest.

“Rather than pursuing experience and, living in the experiences, pass judgments and devise experiential theories and sciences, we receive, in terms of their pure being, into our realm, which itself is of pure being, every act of experience, every judgment of experience, and every complete or incomplete experiential knowledge.” – Edmund Husserl

Serial Order

Imposing sense
Sufficient accuracy
Thrown light

Walking through the Big Apple on a rainy evening, the city is full of palpable energy.

“It is in accordance with the nature of things that mankind should find itself acting and should then proceed to discuss the rationale of its activities.” – Alfred North Whitehead

Perfection Peak

Top of the list
For tripping
Road runners

A business conglomerate that specializes in products that invariably are prone to disaster.

“When I was growing up I had it in my head that ACME stood for American Company Making Everything.” – Netropas

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