Since this past occasion is an entity other than the becoming one, this is
another physical feeling by the new occasion.
In summary, for human beings, causal efficacy can be considered as
the physical feeling by the subject of the world as grouped into nexus (involving a transmuted physical feeling).
Thus the datum for
physical feeling by a new occasion consists of some of the constituent feelings of every occasion in its «actual world.»
Not exact matches
By making
physical and social improvements in your office, you will find that your employees are more likely to be excited about coming into work, more likely to
feel a part of the company, and more likely to work hard on their assigned tasks.
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.
Although I
feel strongly about making sure clients are protecting their
physical energy
by eating right, getting enough sleep, taking time for R&R and so on.
To stimulate employees and motivate them to keep a healthy lifestyle, take care of their health
by organizing a proper workplace: temperature level, ventilation, light, office furniture - they all influence
physical condition, boost spirits, prevent problems with back and neck, and make your employees
feel comfortable about the place of work.
Children learn
by example, so if they see you struggling with poor body image, they'll almost certainly get the message that they need to meet a certain
physical ideal to
feel comfortable in their own skin.
Knowing next to nothing about
physical gold or the mechanics of buying it, they
feel intimidated
by the subject.
Hence, we must attribute to God not only the conceptual ordering of the eternal objects
by virtue of which he lures the occasions of the world toward order and value; we must attribute to him as to all other actual entities
physical feelings as well.
If therefore as Christians we
feel obliged to use the reprimand, the argumentum ad hominem, or even
physical restraint, we must realize all the time that such things are only a means to an end;
by themselves they are both incomplete and ineffectual.
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.
To summarize, the mediatist accepts the following mirroring thesis: one simple
physical feeling comes into being earlier than another simple
physical feeling just in case the actual occasion
felt by the former comes into being later than the actual occasion
felt by the latter.15 (It is assumed that the two
feelings are in one and the same process of concrescence.)
The
physical pole of an occasion is constituted
by physical prehensions or
feelings (strictly the notion of
feelings excludes that of negative prehensions, but that is irrelevant here).
Accordingly, a nontemporalist can revise the mirroring thesis (roughly) as follows: one simple
physical feeling (nontemporally) precedes another simple
physical feeling just in case the actual occasion
felt by the former comes into being (temporally) later than the actual occasion
felt by the latter.
There is an order - isomorphism between the following two sets: the set (ordered
by later) of the actual occasions in the causal past of a given subject actual occasion, and the set (ordered
by earlier) of the simple
physical feelings in the process of concrescence of that subject actual occasion.
To answer this question we need to consult the descriptions of nonsocial nexus which Whitehead gives: «The characteristic of a living society is that a complex structure of inorganic societies is woven together for the production of a non-social nexus characterized
by the intense
physical feelings of its members» (PR 161).
There is still, however, the same threefold character: (i) The «primordial nature» of God is the concrescence of a unity of conceptual
feelings... (ii) The «consequent nature» of God is the
physical prehension
by God of the actualities of the evolving universe... (iii) The «superjective» nature10 of God is the character of the pragmatic value of his specific satisfaction qualifying the transcendent creativity in the various temporal instances.
Its historical aspects have been proved true
by historians and
physical findings.Do you
feel that was just
by chance?
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.
Her discussion here is complicated
by its relation to a view of how God redeems the world: «To be actual, God must take on a «body» and in so doing, redeem: i.e. he must have
physical feelings of the totality of each and all finite achievements, integrating them into the ongoing unity of his consequent nature» (p. 163).
The complexity introduced
by the integration of
physical and conceptual
feelings is for the sake of the enlarged value of the
physical, wherein the complexity is concretely
felt.
In summary, my view is that a nexus is composed of actual entities that are interrelated
by their simple
physical feelings of one another.
Let me rephrase this essential point in the language of the fourteenth category of explanation: A set of mutually contemporaneous actual entities does not have a «unity of the relatedness constituted
by their prehensions [i.e., simple
physical feelings] of each other» (Process 24).
By this, however, I do not mean to indicate that
physical feelings have either a temporal or a logical priority.
Which is another reason why we can share how we
feel and why; but can't be impute motives or be dogmatic except for the most obvious predatory acts like murder, rape,
physical assault — those things that have been criminalized
by enforceable laws, laws that have the support of an overwhelming public consensus.
The sense of the world as a unified whole is not constituted
by a separate
physical feeling in addition to the causal and transmuted
feelings whose data are either single actual entities or a nexus of individuals.
Less obviously, transmuted
feelings are the
physical and perceptual basis for the descriptive generalization
by which Whitehead arrives at the conception of the consequent nature of God.
Because Whitehead himself usually explains this operation
by way of a common eternal object which is illustrated in all the actual entities of the nexus, the significance of a transmuted
feeling as a
feeling of
physical community in the actual world is often overlooked.
According to the fourteenth category of explanation, a nexus is a multiplicity of actual entities in the unity of the relatedness constituted
by their simple
physical feelings of one another.
The main claim illustrated
by the B - A-C nexus is that two actual entities in a nexus may be interrelated indirectly
by means of simple
physical feelings.
To review, a nexus is constituted
by actual entities that are interrelated
by their simple
physical feelings of one another.
The dynamism of the
feeling of subjective immediacy is a vectorial tending forward, an appetition toward a «more,» which urges the organism beyond domination
by the conformal quality of
physical feeling.
My paper can still be read as a discussion of an important type of nexus, namely, those nexus that are interrelated
by means of simple
physical feelings.
In addition, conceptual
feelings would lose their own special generality if they were not carried
by physical feelings.
Simple
physical feelings were also termed
by Whitehead» «causal»
feelings»: «A simple
physical feeling is an act of causation» (Process 236).
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
physical prehension as conformal
feeling, we have said, reproduces the object
by assuming the subjective form of one of its prehensions, but as vector it is, and remains throughout the «life» of the subject, an essential relation to that individual object as other, as there and then.
Hence he thinks Whitehead could only justify his belief that there are hybrid
feelings of noncontiguous entities
by showing some very fundamental difference between hybrid and
physical feelings.
Rather than, as usual, assign the hybrid prehension of God to the first phase, with the conceptual derivation in the second phase (which would deprive the initial phase of simple
physical feeling of any guidance
by the subjective aim), we should think of these two terms as referring to the same
feeling.
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 occasions could not be discovered in the way Whitehead is rejecting, i.e.,
by identifying the subregion correlative with a particular
physical feeling.
«A [simple
physical]
feeling belonging to this special case has as its datum only one actual entity, and this actual entity is objectified
by one of its
feelings» (PR 245).
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).
This problem (intensified
by means of «hybrid
physical feelings», which have not yet been introduced), permits an elegant and rather extreme solution
by Jorge Nobo.
If recent evidence for Lamarckian inheritance (the inheritance of mutations induced
by an organism in response to its immediate environment) holds up and is expanded, it would provide a way of showing not only the importance of self - determination and hybrid
physical feelings in evolution, but also of how divinely rooted initial aims could be effective.
Now God prehends each occasion
by means of one of his
physical feelings.
God is the chief actual entity, yet
by his reversal of the ordering of
physical to conceptual
feeling, he maintains a necessary, systematic contrast to all finite actual occasions.
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.
His discussion of the conformation of
physical feeling is dominated
by considerations pertaining to finite actualization, where that conformation is always partial, and hence never applies to the total satisfaction.