But the original context from which this metaphor comes, wine - making, includes such
characteristics as only intermediate
phases of a
process whose aim is a stronger product.
The physical prehensions which are added to this primordial nature, do not as yet have to be brought to unity, but are prehended in terms
of God's conceptual unity, and are thereby instantaneously absorbed into that unity: «in the
process he [God] acquires a consequent multiplicity, which the primordial character absorbs into its own unity» (PR 349).19 The completely determinate final unity which Whitehead terms «satisfaction,» which is the culmination in a normal concrescence, and which is reached though
phases of indeterminateness
of the mutual relations
of the elements which partake in the concrescence (PR 25 - 26, 211 - 212)-- this completely determinate unity is not a finishing point for God, but a permanent
characteristic of God.
-- the atmospheric concentration
of CO2 and other GHG's; — the reflective & absorptive
characteristics, as a function
of wavelength, for the GHG's; — the specific heat and mass
of the earth's intermediate - term heat - storage media — the oceans (primarily) and the atmosphere; — the quantity
of heat absorbed by
phase - changes = ice - melt; and by chemical / biological
processes.