Full Idea
Physical objects, conceived four-dimensionally in space-time, are not to be distinguished from events or concrete processes. Each comprises simply the content, however heterogeneous, of a portion of space-time, however disconnected and gerrymandered.
Clarification
'Gerrymandered' means put together rather randomly
Gist of Idea
Physical objects in space-time are just events or processes, no matter how disconnected
Source
Willard Quine (Word and Object [1960], §36)
Book Reference
Quine,Willard: 'Word and Object' [MIT 1969], p.171
A Reaction
I very much like the suggestion that objects should be thought of as 'processes', but I dislike the idea that they can be gerrymandered. This is a refusal to cut nature at the joints (Idea 7953), which I find very counterintuitive.
Related Idea
Idea 7953 Reasoning needs to cut nature accurately at the joints [Plato]