ABSTRACT
What gives us the sense of importance? Does this sense of importance belong exclusively to humans who project what imports to them, their values and their interests onto nature? Or, on the contrary, should we settle the sense of importance inside nature itself? Is there a sense of importance that exists inside bodies, inside of each biological organization, and, if we go further, inside of physical realities? Using Whitehead’s philosophy, a definition of speculative thought is proposed: What counts and should be accounted for is the intensification of an event’s importance to its ultimate level.
