p.1 In his paper, From Objects to Processes, Siegfried Schmidt suggests that "philosophical problems similar to the reality problem cannot be solved but can only be resolved – an argument deeply rooted in Ludwig Wittgensteinʼs philosophy [2]," and he later notes: "A consequent orientation to processes allows the two nasty traditional problems of "representation" and "reference" to be resolved. Processes do not represent ‘reality’; instead they produce real-for-us results" ...along with Schmidt, I also want to suggest that a radical reorientation towards what is real for us is required.

p.1 what appropriate descriptions can do for us – if we can of course provide them – is to bring to our notice facets and subtleties of events occurring in our relations to our surroundings as they irreversibly unfold. Where his aim in his investigations is to produce "just that understanding which consists in ‘seeing connections’" (no. 122), that is, connections or relations within and among phenomena that we have not previously ‘seen’.

p.2 we must return to talking always from within a context or situation. It is this noticing that the particulars before us can be re-organized in a way different from how they first appeared to us that is crucial to our being an agent in our own human affairs.

p.3 As I see it, a difficulty of orientation is not a problem that can be solved by thinking differently

p.3 The kind of reorientation we need, I think, is a focus on the just-happening events occurring within the spontaneously responsive involvements of growing and living forms, both with each other and with all the other othernesses in their surroundings – as well as a focus on their own particular and unique ways of coming-into-Being. Each one requires understanding in its own unique way.