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Summary: ``In this paper two different approaches to unification willbe compared, Relational Blockworld (RBW) and Hiley's implicate order.Both approaches are monistic in that they attempt to derive matter andspacetime geometry `at once' in an interdependent and backgroundindependent fashion from something underneath both quantum theory andrelativity. Hiley's monism resides in the implicate order via Cliffordalgebras and is based on process as fundamental while RBW's monismresides in spacetimematter via path integrals over graphs wherebyspace, time and matter are co-constructed per a global constraintequation. RBW's monism therefore resides in being (relationalblockworld) while that of Hiley's resides in becoming (elementaryprocesses). Regarding the derivation of quantum theory and relativity,the promises and pitfalls of both approaches will be elaborated.Finally, special attention will be paid as to how Hiley's processaccount might avoid the blockworld implications of relativity and thefrozen time problem of canonical quantum gravity.''