Causal Efficacy

Regarding the disagreement over the definition of Whitehead’s ‘Causal Efficacy’ I made the same error from my first reading of Process and Reality.

Certainly the language itself is counter-intuitive, I don’t recall the contextual language from P&R but Kazi’s definition is the consensus among Whitehead scholars.

My understanding of causal efficacy is that includes our biological/genetic ‘lenses’ (?) as part of the Deleuzian passive.

I don’t know if Deleuze addresses those biological and genetic perceptive factors, but I do also wonder how they would play out over habit and memory as well. I’ll ask McGilchrist if the opportunity presents.

I do think a detailed and continued Whitehead and Deleuze comparison would be beneficial for the understanding of both authors.

One critique I have of Whitehead is that he puts too much emphasis on becoming over being, Deleuze is more balanced in that regard.

Both authors are generally speculative and correspondingly loose with their language. That’s certainly appropriate in an evolving field and maybe always in subjective radical empiricism. However after adjusting for Whitehead’s overemphasis on becoming he might actually be the more rigorous author.

And both might be more understandable – and ‘advanceable’.