It is important to realize that a simple physical feeling does not choose the perspective of its initial datum independently of the perspectives chosen by the other simple
physical feelings which belong to the first phase of concrescence.
As the sufferer from rheumatism is unable to master
his physical feelings which are under the sway of wind and weather, with the result that he is involuntarily aware of a change in the air etc., so it is with him whose feeling has become fantastic; he becomes in a way infinitized, but not in such a way that he becomes more and more himself, for he loses himself more and more.
This stress on the primacy of process and the ultimacy of constitutive relations means that, in considering the morphological structure of religious experience, attention must be directed to its origin in
the physical feelings which comprise the primary mode of human experience.
We have seen that inorganic societies, such as rock molecules, endure through time by repeating endlessly their patterns of physical feeling, and that it is just this endurance through time of a definite pattern of
physical feeling which «catches our eye.»
As a matter of fact, Cobb later qualifies his statement and recognizes «substantive changes» occur between Religion in the Making and Process and Reality.17 Ford, noting Cobb's earlier position, gives a detailed interpretation of seven passages in Religion in the Making to show that Whitehead had not yet ascribed to God
physical feeling which allows the contrast between God's temporal and non-temporal natures.18
Not exact matches
While
physical movement will have mental benefits, if you are able to work your heart through cardio exercise it will create
feel good endorphins,
which is both physically rewarding and mentally beneficial.
And we like the idea of them being somehow computer - generated rather than simply «digital copies,»
which feels like a cheap imitation of
physical collectibles.»
Therefore, really the US is celebrating a
physical acheivement that too, much belatedly.I am sure should the pace of terrorism world over increase
which even Obama
feels is quite likely, the Muslim world will unsurprisingly celebrate Osama as a martyr and his vision will continue to prevail among the uneducated muslim youth.
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.
Pregnancy, however, falls comfortably into none of the usual definitions of disease: it is not a state inimical to the way one is supposed to
feel; it is not a condition in
which body components and systems are acting inharmoniously (to the contrary, infertility would more likely fall within that definition); it is not a state of abnormality — for the pregnant woman functions satisfactorily within society, and the social and
physical environment tolerates the pregnant woman perfectly.
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.
God's so - called primordial conceptual envisagement could never have occurred prior to all
physical feelings since there can not be conceptuality except as it grows around an inherited multiplicity of previous, determinate specifications
which establishes the potentiality of the moment's aim.
Pleasure - anxiety in the individual is that
which makes him
feel guilty and anxious when he is experiencing pleasure, especially
physical pleasure.
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 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).
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.
Whitehead's statement that propositions are «lures for
feeling» (PR 395) means that the commonsense world
which we perceive is symbolic of the throbbing world of
physical activities (PW 141/153).
Broadly differentiated initial data are capable of yielding connections, discriminations, and contrasts
which provide an extensive relatedness for
physical feeling at the causal level and for subsequent integration in the higher phases of experience.
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 actualities and relationships
which constitute human experience are
felt in a context of relativity
which is ultimately rooted in
physical relationships.
The generality or width of inclusion of an individual's
physical feelings is largely a function of the actual world from
which it emerges.
Instead, he implies that it is conceptual thought
which carries the sensitivity to formal relationships in experience, while
physical feelings, on the other hand, contribute a sensitivity to the particularities of process.
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.
I am concerned here only with the general structural character of the subjective forms of the
physical feelings in
which religious experience is grounded.
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.
It is the function of a particular kind of complex integration of
physical and conceptual
feelings which yields the higher intellectual
feelings with the subjective form of consciousness.
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.
He does not emphasize sufficiently the generality
which also pertains to
physical feelings.
Their subjective forms indicate the qualitative ways in
which the subject experiences the energy of
physical feelings.
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.
This relates to the telos
which is inherent within
physical feelings of complex value and
which moves toward a generality usually associated with conceptual thought alone.
Religious experience has an organic structure
which can be analyzed in terms of the
physical and conceptual
feelings correlative to the generality of values perceived, and the subjective forms appropriate to each
feeling element.
This fact introduces the adumbrative quality of
physical feeling, a quality
which Whitehead does not distinguish but
which is implied in his doctrine of abstractive objectification and negative prehension.
The
physical feelings with
which religious experience is primarily concerned are: (a) the simple causal
feelings of the conformal phase of concrescence, (b) the transmuted
physical feelings, and (c) what I will call the «
feelings of subjectivity» or processive immediacy.
The fusion of
physical and conceptual
feelings may lead to a conceptual generality
which outruns what one is able to experience physically.
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).
It is the generality of both the
physical and the conceptual
feelings involved in religious experience
which establishes the common basis for the kind of integration in
which emotional experience illustrates a conceptual justification, and conceptual experience finds an emotional justification.
This insertion itself (G) contains a further insertion, 224.44 - 225.11,
which introduces the later notion of «hybrid
physical feelings».
With much fanfare, the first section (III.2.1 F) introduces the «simple
physical feeling»,
which is mentioned later in the same chapter, but not in the very next section.
It makes no sense because the very primitive actual occasions constitutive of the piano and of its immediate
physical environment have a capacity for novel adjustment of
feeling which is virtually nil,
which is, for all practical purposes, nil.
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.
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.
Sherburne tends, in his argument against regional inclusion, to quote passages in
which Whitehead is making the point that when the region of an actual occasion is divided the subregions correspond to its
physical feelings but that these
physical feelings are not actual occasions capable of independent existence.
When we follow Whitehead in thinking of prehensions of noncontiguous occasions — mediated or not — then the number of
physical feelings of
which I am blankly unconscious is staggering.
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.
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.