Process Philosophy

Time is emergent from the creative advance of reality — it is the medium of becoming, not a fixed container. Each "actual occasion" (Whitehead) is a novel event that synthesizes the past and perishes into objectivity for future occasions. Time is continuous, linear, and uni-directional because becoming is irreversible. Its extent is infinite because the creative advance never ceases.

Space is emergent from the relational structure of actual occasions — it is the pattern of extensive connection among events rather than an independent container. It is flat, local, and three-dimensional in its macro-level structure. Space exists because entities are related to one another in an extensive continuum.

Matter is emergent — it is a high-level abstraction from the ongoing process of events. There are no enduring material substances, only sequences of momentary occasions inheriting from one another. Matter is conserved at the macro level because patterns of inheritance are stable, but at the fundamental level everything is process and becoming.

Energy is emergent from the creative process — it is the dynamical aspect of actual occasions rather than an independent substance. Conservation holds as a macro-level regularity of the process. Dispersibility is irreversible because each occasion of experience is a novel, unrepeatable creative act.

Information arises in events and perishes with them — each occasion of experience creates new informational content through its synthesis of the past. It is non-conserved because each occasion is a novel creation.