| Summary: | Throughout history, mankind has attempted to understand nature in various ways. The way one understands nature has a deep influence upon ones way of thinking and life. The traditional understanding of nature in the West has been as an object, or understood through the perspective of being. This has resulted in an over-reliance on scientific reductionism. This is in contrast to this is a more dynamic view of nature as becoming, which is more common in the East. In this article I try to reconcile these opposing views of nature; between being and becoming, determinism and indeterminism, mechanism and holism, through the approach of process philosophy. Through such a synthesis of these conflicting views, a new perspective of nature can be constructed which can hopefully lead us to a more harmonious interaction with our environment.
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