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    The document pays homage to Alfred North Whitehead's work Nature Alive, which expressed a holistic view of the natural world as dynamic, purposeful, and creative. The contributors bring different philosophical perspectives to challenge the still-dominant mechanistic and reductionist neo-Darwinian view of nature and living things as machines. They explore new areas of biology that provide insights beyond natural selection and genetics to help explain the emergence of living things including mind.

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    Nature Alive

    This volume pays homage to Alfred North Whiteheads (1861-1947) profound lecture and essay entitled Nature

    Alive, which was one of his most mature expressions of his process-relational metaphysics a holistic

    conceptual framework that renders vivid the dynamic character of the natural world and the intrinsic

    purposiveness, selective agency, and creativity of living organisms. Inspired by, but not beholden to,

    Whiteheads process metaphysical lens, the contributors to this volume bring a multiplicity of philosophical

    orientations to the table in challenging the mechanistic and reductionistic neo-Darwinian paradigm that is still

    dominant today in the life sciences. Mechanistic neo-Darwinism views nature and living organisms as

    machines, namely, as networks of externally related and linear causal switches, dials, levers, pulleys, and

    gears, that are at the ready for technological and biotechnological manipulation. Seeking a conceptual

    framework and a language that are more adequate to the study of the natural world and of living creatures than

    the mechanistic orientation, the contributors to this volume explore several of the New Frontiers of Biology,

    which are areas of biology whose findings to some extent go beyond the explanatory confines of the Modern

    Synthesis of natural selection and genetics. Most notably, emergence theory, the theory of organic selection,

    epigenetics, homeostasis, chronobiology, and autopoiesis research can provide us with key insights that can

    assist us in explaining how living agents emerged, including the evolutionary origins of mentality,

    consciousness, and mind. Moreover, attention to the New Frontiers of Biology can serve to re-enchant our

    understanding of the natural world

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