摘要：Bracken synthesizes Polanyi’s notion of morphogentic field and Whitehead’s notion of societies of actual
occasions. These comments emphasize the implications of the metaphors involved in these notions. The
metaphor of plants growing in a field lies beyond the concept of a morphogenetic field, and the metaphor of
a society of interacting persons lies behind the concept of a society of actual occasions. I suggest that one of
the implications of this metaphor is that there is not, as Bracken argues, a problem of continuity in Whitehead’s
metaphysics of events.
