Will and Detachment

Will, in Formaterialism, is the principle of Diversification in Experience--the generation of an indefinite novel Otherwise. It is Will, in its earliest phase, that is traditionally characterized as the 'detachment' that for many doctrines is the cardinal philosophical moment. However, lacking an appreciation for the fundamentality of Diversification in Experience, these systems can only interpret that moment as a transition to a transcendent 'nowhere', rather than to a previously non-existent otherwise. Hence, the dualisms that are constructed to accommodate such a nowhere, e. g. in order to locate it in a metaphysical realm, are based on an abstraction from a more mundane experiential process.