The first factor is especially obvious on the higher
levels of experience, but the affective response, as integral part
of the
experience (rather than as reflective reaction), predominates in the more
primitive forms.
No one is more aware than Whitehead himself that the generalizable factors are not to be found in the more developed stages
of human
experience, but rather in the most basic, most
primitive levels.
This can also by all means be regarded as ensuing in the interest
of a more inclusive analysis
of the human being, as an opportunity for the theoretical comprehension
of the so - called «
primitive»
experiences which even human beings have — and indeed to a large extent in every case —
experiences which, as a rule, reach the
level of consciousness only, for example, in a dull bodily sensation, in the feeling
of various degrees
of general psychophysical «presence,» etc..