ABSTRACT
In claiming that organisms are processes, and not substances, the process philosopher is simultaneously making a claim about herself. She is an organism – and as such, she too is a process (and not a substance). But what does it mean to say that we (humans) are processes? The aim of this chapter is to interrogate the processual view of biological individuals, to examine its road worthiness and to explore (if only very speculatively) how this shift in self-conception may play out in moral, ethical and legal spheres. In doing this, I will alternate between discussions of analytic philosophy of biology (as found in the work of Dupré, Seibt, Wiggins and others) and postmodern critiques of the sovereign human subject (as found in the work of Hayles and Butler).
