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In psychology, the subject of imagination was again explored more extensively since Whitehead, and the question of feasibility or "eternal objects" of thought became central to the impaired theory of mind explorations that framed postmodern cognitive science. A biological understanding of the most eternal object, that being the emerging of similar but independent cognitive apparatus, led to an obsession with the process "embodiment", that being, the emergence of these cognitions. Like Whitehead's God, especially as elaborated in J. J. Gibson's perceptual psychology emphasizing affordances, by ordering the relevance of eternal objects (especially the cognitions of other such actors), the world becomes. Or, it becomes simple enough for human beings to begin to make choices, and to prehend what happens as a result. These experiences may be summed in some sense but can only approximately be shared, even among very similar cognitions with identical DNA. An early explorer of this view was Alan Turing who sought to prove the limits of expressive complexity of human genes in the late 1940s, to put bounds on the complexity of human intelligence and so assess the feasibility of artificial intelligence emerging. Since 2000, Process Psychology has progressed as an independent academic and therapeutic discipline: In 2000, Michel Weber created the Whitehead Psychology Nexus: an open forum dedicated to the cross-examination of Alfred North Whitehead's process philosophy and the various facets of the contemporary psychological field.

=== Philosophy of movement ===
The philosophy of movement is a sub-area within process philosophy that treats processes as movements. It studies processes as flows, folds, and fields in historical patterns of centripetal, centrifugal, tensional, and elastic motion. See Thomas Nail's philosophy of movement and process materialism.

== See also ==
Concepts
Actual idealism
Anicca, the Buddhist doctrine that all is "transient, evanescent, inconstant"
Panta rhei, Heraclitus's concept that "everything flows"
Dialectic
Dialectical monism
Elisionism
Holomovement
Pancreativism
Salishan languages#Nounlessness
Speculative realism
People
John B. Cobb
David Ray Griffin
Arthur Peacocke
Michel Weber
Arran Gare
Joseph A. Bracken
Milič Čapek
Wilfrid Sellars
Wilmon Henry Sheldon
Thomas Nail
Iain McGilchrist
Eugene Gendlin
Rein Raud
Charles Hartshorne

== Notes ==

== References ==

== External links ==
Academia pages of the Center for Philosophical Practice.
Seibt, Johanna. "Process Philosophy". In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. ISSN 1095-5054. OCLC 429049174.
Process philosophy at PhilPapers
Process philosophy at the Indiana Philosophy Ontology Project
Hustwit, Jeremy R. "Process philosophy". In Fieser, James; Dowden, Bradley (eds.). Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. ISSN 2161-0002. OCLC 37741658.
Whitehead Research Project
Process and Reality. Part V. Final Interpretation
Wolfgang Sohst: Prozessontologie. Ein systematischer Entwurf der Entstehung von Existenz (Berlin 2009)
Critique of a Metaphysics of Process (Antwerp 2012)