Accordingly, the primary experience of receiving with emotional and
purposive subjective form the causal influence of other actualities tends to be only dimly illuminated in consciousness precisely because it is primary.
In this more fundamental mode, other actual entities are perceived, and the data are received not neutrally, but with emotional and
purposive subjective forms of reception.
Not exact matches
This
purposive element Whitehead affirms as present in every occasion and is what he calls its «
subjective aim.»
But it is this
subjective aim to incorporate novelty which lies behind all
purposive adaptation to the environment.
Instead of assuming that the natural world is a materialistic machine, we should assume that it has within it the potential to produce the
subjective,
purposive life we experience within ourselves.