It's this layer where you move
from physical feeling and rhythm to emotional feeling.
One of the basic categories states that «
from each physical feeling there is the derivation of a purely conceptual feeling» (PR 40).
«Note that category (iv) concerns conceptual reproduction of physical feeling, and category (v) concerns conceptual diversity
from physical feeling.»
While the category of conceptual reproduction derives a conceptual feeling
from every physical feeling, it does not consider any underived conceptual feelings.
From each physical feeling there is the derivation of a purely conceptual feeling whose datum is the eternal object exemplified in the definiteness of the actual entity, or of the nexus, physically felt.
But the conceptual characterization of community is an extension of the concrete experience of physical community, just as the common eternal object used to characterize the nexus is derived
from the physical feeling of entities - requiring - each - other.
No plausible reason could be found why God's physical feeling should not be as complete as possible from the start, nor why he should then abstract
from this physical feeling the bare indicative feelings necessary for propositional feelings.
[When this intervention is taken into account, all conceptual feelings must be derived
from physical feelings.]
We have to discuss the categoreal conditions for such derivation of conceptual feelings
from the physical feelings relating to the temporal world.
Conceptual feelings are primarily derivate
from physical feelings, and secondarily from each other.
What is ignored in this emendation is the status of God's own conceptual feelings, which even in the final concept can not all be derived
from physical feelings.
Later (in the nonitalicized text, minus the sentence in brackets), when Whitehead has developed the notion of God as unfettered conceptual valuation, he realizes that divine conceptual feelings, since many pertain to unrealized eternal objects, can not possibly be derived
from physical feelings.
The generality of conceptual feeling, on the other hand, concerns the universal applicability of the patterns of relationships abstracted
from the physical feelings and projected forward as structures potentially exemplified elsewhere.
But if all conceptual feelings could be derived
from physical feelings, the category of conceptual valuation would suffice.
But when we take God into account, then we can assert without any qualification Hume's principle, that all conceptual feelings are derived
from physical feelings.
If there were only the derivation of possibilities
from physical feelings, possibility could never rise over achieved actuality.
The occasion then begins to put the stamp of its developing individuality on this material: the intermediate phase is «a ferment of qualitative valuation» effected by conceptual feelings, some of them automatically derived
from the physical feelings of the first phase, others introduced because of their contribution toward a navel unification.
Nor is this contention weakened by Whitehead's statement that God's experience originates from conceptual feelings while the experience of finite occasions originates
from physical feelings.
Yet conceptual feelings are always derivative
from physical feelings.7 This principle is expressed in the fourth Categoreal Obligation: «From each physical feeling there is the derivation of a purely conceptual feeling whose datum is the eternal object determinant of the definiteness of the actual entity, or the nexus, physically felt» (PR 26 / 39f.).
Not exact matches
By going deeper and understanding the reward Tad was seeking
from his behavior —
feeling successful — Perlow was able to engineer an office environment that provided this
feeling while sparing Tad the
physical and psychological toll that constant connectivity can bring.
Just like
physical exercise, creative stimulation engages and focuses our minds on the task at hand — and distracts us
from feelings of stress and anxiety.
Startups that have a
physical location enjoy this personal aspect, too — you may be doing business internationally, but if your entire team is a paper ball toss away
from each other, you'll definitely
feel more secure in your management needs.
With science showing sleep deprivation creates a host of negative effects,
from decreased creativity to radically compromised mental performance (and that's not even getting into the
physical problems it causes), attending to your body's need for sleep is always a good idea, but failing to get enough rest also exacerbates our tendency to get stressed out, so it's even more important to pay attention to if you
feel your mental health is getting a little shaky.
Showcasing your store as a
physical entity gives customers a sense of comfort buying
from a business that
feels real.
This article makes me
feel that it isn't such a foolish idea to hold at least SOME
physical gold coins (in the extreme case where extricating one's cash etc.
from banks / platforms starts to look too precarious).
3Pethaps some further explanation is needed of the manner in which a society as a unified field of activity serves as the medium for the transmission of
physical feelings and conceptual patterns
from one generation of occasions to another.
All the decisions of the consequent nature flow
from the primordial nature, and though the former does not fit the present actual occasions into a ready - made pattern of the temporal past (as Ford carefully points out: IPQ 13:356), yet «the weaving of Cod's
physical feelings upon his primordial concepts (PR 524) amounts to the emergence into time, as predicates of God's propositional
feelings, of the very valuations of his nontemporal decision.
In both cases, therefore, the field acts as the medium for the transmission of
physical feelings and conceptual patterns
from one set of actual occasions to another.
From the physical pole pure perceptivity issues in a value - feeling; from the mental pole the issue of reflective perceptivity is likewise a value - feeling (RM 1
From the
physical pole pure perceptivity issues in a value -
feeling;
from the mental pole the issue of reflective perceptivity is likewise a value - feeling (RM 1
from the mental pole the issue of reflective perceptivity is likewise a value -
feeling (RM 102).
For example, in the above illustration, F is immediately later than G. And E both
feels F directly and
feels G through the medium of F. Thus, during E's process of concrescence, E's simple
physical feeling of G is immediately later than E's simple
physical feeling of F. To generalize, the mediatist accepts the following thesis, which follows
from the mirroring thesis and the definition of «immediately later»: one simple
physical feeling is immediately later than another simple
physical feeling just in case the actual occasion
felt by the latter is immediately later than the actual occasion
felt by the former.
[d] should be understood as an insertion because it includes late concepts, that is, «intellectual
feelings» and «
physical feelings», respectively
from redactional strata H and D (on those concepts as belonging to later redactional strata, see chapter nine in EWM).
-- C. S. Lewis who went
from atheist to Anglican
felt that if the universe is just cause and effect, the unfolding of
physical laws without creative or guiding actor, then nobody can criticize someone else for any action or belief, since all of it is inevitable and could not be any other way given the initial conditions.
Clearly, the A-B nexus — in which B coheres concretely with A by means of a simple
physical feeling — is different
from the B - C unison — in which B and C come into being independently.
The generality or width of inclusion of an individual's
physical feelings is largely a function of the actual world
from which it emerges.
Simple
physical feelings are but «the transmission of a form of energy
from event to event in the
physical world» (PW 123/131).
Conceptual
feelings, which occur in the context of
physical process, can be imaginatively abstracted
from process, but they have no independent life apart
from physical rootage.
Once abstracted
from their
physical roots, conceptual
feelings may be generalized beyond the range of the
physical experience of the individual to include possible extensions to which the
physical feelings may apply.
The combination of communal and adumbrative subjective forms in transmuted
physical feelings provides the foundation of the religious
feeling of «the value of the objective world which is a community derivative
from the interrelations of its component individuals, and also necessary for the existence of each of these individuals» (JIM 59).
Let us assume that there are two durations that satisfy the following three conditions: (1) One is later than the other; (2) they do not have members in common; and (3) the set containing all of the actual entities
from both durations is a nexal set.20 In that nexal set, there are chains of actual entities, linked together by simple
physical feelings, that span the entire universe.
The starting point is of course to
feel confident and at ease with the lover role, but then a little mental and
physical journey has to take place to cross over
from mother to lover.
Whitehead accounts for time in terms of the data of
physical feeling, which is set as compatible for final synthesis
from the outset.
If the occasion begins with a plurality of
physical feelings, then the most efficient way to introduce conceptual
feelings in terms of which the occasion can actively respond, is to derive them
from the former.
If the mental pole were derived
from the
physical pole, what would be the role of the subject with respect to that pole (or those
physical feelings) considered by itself?
The term «
physical feeling» seems to be absent
from «The Theory of
Feelings» (III.1), except for one section (III.1.9), which could be a later insertion.9 Sometime during or just after writing «The Theory of Feelings» we may infer that Whitehead introduced the notion of «causal feelings» (III.2.2), which was then overruled by the more developed theory of «simple physical feelings» (I
Feelings» (III.1), except for one section (III.1.9), which could be a later insertion.9 Sometime during or just after writing «The Theory of
Feelings» we may infer that Whitehead introduced the notion of «causal feelings» (III.2.2), which was then overruled by the more developed theory of «simple physical feelings» (I
Feelings» we may infer that Whitehead introduced the notion of «causal
feelings» (III.2.2), which was then overruled by the more developed theory of «simple physical feelings» (I
feelings» (III.2.2), which was then overruled by the more developed theory of «simple
physical feelings» (I
feelings» (III.2.1).
The hybrid
physical feeling of God, which is (on the traditional Whiteheadian account) the subjective aim for any particular occasion of the young woman s experience, is also a prehension of the past
from which she inherits — it is, after all, a
physical feeling.
Feeling «caged in» was an entirely appropriate sensation while viewing the images of people who had themselves faced all kinds of
physical and cultural barriers in their flight
from conflict.
Its wording is somewhat ambiguous, and he may have remembered it as deriving the mental pole
from the
physical pole, thus endorsing the particularization of that doctrine with respect to individual
feelings.
Since he concedes only contingent «practical negligibility» with respect to
physical feelings, he obviously does not have to show any profound difference of hybrid
feelings from physical ones in order to hold that there may be less negligible hybrid
feelings of noncontiguous occasions.
The insertion is much closer to «causal
feelings» in not (explicitly, at least), deriving conceptual
feelings from physical ones, when that is the whole purpose of conceptual reproduction.
If the mental pole can not be sharply separated
from the
physical pole, Sherburne thinks, Whitehead must accept the same limits for hybrid
feelings as for
physical feelings.