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1 What does Whitehead object to in the traditional ‘metaphysics of substance’, and why does he wish to substitute a ‘metaphysics of flux’?

2 What does Whitehead mean by an ‘organic conception’ of the world? Why does he think it is supported by modern physics?

3 Explain how Whitehead sees the seventeenth-century conception of a ‘mechanical materialist nature’ as leading to a dualistic split between the objective world and the conscious mind. Do you think his notion of ‘the unity of the event’ solves the problem?