Prof. Segall (one of my amazing Prof’s at CIIS) has a fantastic post here that I very much agree with…
(30) The Return of Platonic Biology – by Matthew David Segall:
Process philosophy offers an alternative proposal that avoids the extremes of both reductive materialism and transcendent idealism. Rather than treating forms as autonomous agents, it understands them as potentiae—non-historical possibilities with patterned relations among themselves and to actuality generally. These possibilities do not act. They ingress. Agency belongs to actual occasions of experience, the events of concrescence in which the physical inheritance of the past meets the lure of unrealized potential. Forms become effective only as they are selected and transformed within the creative advance of living occasions.