The method is realistic, not idealistic: Whitehead remarks that instead of describing, in Kantian fashion,
how subjective data pass into the appearance of an objective world, he describes how subjective experience emerges from an objective world.
I've noticed one thing over and over again in these arguments and that is
how subjective data is managed.
Not exact matches
Depending on the scope and purpose of the research, happiness is often measured using objective indicators (
data on crime, income, civic engagement and health) and
subjective methods, such as asking people
how frequently they experience positive and negative emotions.
Mays does not comment on the remark (PR 35) that a
subjective form is
how that subject prehends its
datum, the manner of prehension including various emotional and attitudinal characteristics.
The philosophy of organism seeks to describe
how objective
data pass into
subjective satisfaction, and
how order in the objective
data provides intensity in the
subjective satisfaction.
This puts Hartshorne where he wants to be, because to intuit (prehend) actual occasions as they occur is to intuit (prehend) them formaliter, as they exist in the immediate subjectivity of concrescence, and since God is everlasting, and experiences all actual occasions formaliter, actual occasions are preserved everlastingly (in their full, warm,
subjective immediacy) in the consequent nature of God.6 This interpretation resolves the question of the status of the past, the problem of
how the past is given as
datum for concrescing actual occasions, and the question of a ground for truth claims about the past.
Whitehead claims that a feeling can be analyzed into five factors:» (i) the «subject» which feels; (ii) the «initial
data» which are to be felt; (iii) the «elimination» in virtue of negative prehensions; (iv) the «objective
datum» which is felt; (v) the «
subjective form,» which is
how that subject feels that objective
datum» (PR 221 / 337f.
Whitehead says, «The
subjective form is the immediate novelty; it is
how that subject is feeling that objective
datum.»
This includes the objective form according to which feelings of causal efficacy prehend past actual occasions, the
subjective form —
how the occasion prehends — and the
subjective aim of the present concrescence —
how it wants to be a
datum for future becomings.
How this interaction takes place is determined by the
subjective form, which is the particular mood or attitude by which the subject prehends a particular
datum.
However, I have an irrational trait myself (we all do) and
how we interpret
data is
subjective.
Still, he is confident that the process of building on these algorithms may one day explain the ultimate riddle of the brain —
how sensory
data gets transformed into a
subjective awareness of reality.
In addition, aggregate
data from the app will be presented to the NYPL staff for consideration, meaning that exhibition visitors have the opportunity to apply their own
subjective judgment in a way that may come to define
how each image is cataloged.