Climate Change and Some Other Implications of Vibratory Existence

Authors

  • Glenn McLaren Swinburne Unviersity

Keywords:

Climate change, Process Philosophy, vibration, vibratory existence, oscillation, flatland, mean

Abstract

Modern Process Philosophy began when Alfred North Whitehead realized that existence is primarily vibratory, not points but processes. Vibrations are best understood as sound waves, or through using auditory metaphors rather than visual ones. Our Universe is more like music than matter, but how does this help us better understand it? In this paper I use the example of the large ocean current oscillators that help drive our climate systems to reveal the more effective nature of auditory approaches. Through an auditory approach, we can better understand the ways these oscillations constrain and interact with other levels of oscillations as well as how they might be destroyed by other levels. This can then lead to us extending our ethics to the conservation of these oscillations.

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Published

21-11-2009

How to Cite

McLaren, G. (2009). Climate Change and Some Other Implications of Vibratory Existence. Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 5(2), 134–160. Retrieved from http://cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/146