In the face of these difficulties, philosophers tend to divide into two sorts: the "process philosophers" and the "philosophers of the manifold". Process philosophers such as Alfred North Whitehead, an Anglo-American mathematician, scientist.
The question may be asked, however, what advantage such a hypertime could have for the process philosopher and whether there is process through hypertime.
In still other words, Deleuze and Guattari are process philosophers; neither the structures of such processes nor their completed products merit the same ontological status as processes themselves.
Process philosophers, such as Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne, have held that the idea of God emerges in religious experience but that the nature and reality of God are problems calling for logical argument and metaphysical interpretation, in which emphasis falls on the relation between God and the world being realized in a temporal process.
While many contemporary process philosophers adopt either one of the two current research traditions, analytical versus continental, there is also a number of processists who find that process thought has created a field of curious affinities between the continental and analytical trajectories of twentieth century criticism of traditional metaphysics.
Some process philosophers (e.g. Whitehead) took organismic processes as their central model for a concept of occurrence that generates internal and external coherence of an entity.
The process philosopher may therefore adopt the expedient of Henri Bergson, saying that temporal process (the extra something that makes the difference between a static and a dynamic universe) just cannot be pictured spatially (whether one supposes four, five, or more dimensions).
For example, more sophisticated statistical measures and methods are becoming commonplace in x-phi as collaboration increases between experimental philosophers and psychologists.
On the other hand, the divide between philosophers and ordinary language can perhaps be squared by noting that MC simulations simulate an imaginary process that might be used for calculating something relevant to studying some other process.
In fact, psychology was one arena of sharp conflict between philosophers and mutakallimûn.
