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Process and Reality

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Philosophy Process metaphysicsPanexperientialism

By Alfred North Whitehead

Summary

Reality consists of "actual occasions" — drops of experience — that prehend each other. Every actual entity is a subject experiencing its concrescence. God is the primordial nature that envisions all possibilities and the consequent nature that prehends all actuality. Consciousness is a high-level, rare form of experience, not its essence.

Why It Matters

The most comprehensive post-Kantian metaphysical system that takes experience as fundamental. Whitehead's process philosophy independently arrived at conclusions strikingly parallel to Eastern non-duality.

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