Question: What did Isabelle Stengers say is the reason that "Process and Reality" is not commonly read and understood?
Answer: it demands – as Isabelle Stengers puts it – "that its readers accept the adventure of the questions that will separate them from every consensus."

Question: What effect did Whitehead have on the future of metaphysics?
Answer: he managed to anticipate a number of 21st century scientific and philosophical problems and provide novel solutions.

Question: Which publication is considered the most impressive metaphysical text?
Answer: Process and Reality

Question: Who thought Process and Reality was little-read because the reader has to separate them from normal thought?
Answer: Isabelle Stengers

Question: What philosophy in the west was challenged by Whitehead?
Answer: how the universe works

Question: What was Whitehead's philosophy able to anticipate for the 21st century?
Answer: scientific and philosophical problems

Question: What was the outcome of anticipating the scientific and philosophical problems Whitehead proposed?
Answer: novel solutions

Question: What did Whitehead believe regarding creativity?
Answer: creativity is the absolute principle of existence

Question: An entity is a sum of relations, a valuation of them and what else?
Answer: reaction to them.

Question: Most entities do not have what?
Answer: consciousness

Question: All entities, being unable to predict behavior, are because of what?
Answer: the fundamental creativity/freedom of all entities

Question: Not being able to predict what any entity is going to do is what principle b Whitehead?
Answer: creativity is the absolute principle of existence

Question: Other than the combination of its relations, what else defines an entity?
Answer: an entity is not merely a sum of its relations, but also a valuation of them and reaction to them

Question: What did Whitehead believe about an entity's relation to other entities?
Answer: has some degree of novelty in how it responds to other entities, and is not fully determined by causal or mechanistic laws

Question: What is the origin of the word "prehension"?
Answer: comes from the Latin prehensio, meaning "to seize."

Question: What is a basic description of the theory of representative perception?
Answer: the mind only has private ideas about other entities

Question: What term did Whitehead describe that perception is not limited to the living?
Answer: prehension

Question: What language does the term "prehensio" come from?
Answer: Latin

Question: What does the word "Prehensio" translate into?
Answer: to seize

Question: What entities does the term prehension apply to?
Answer: conscious or unconscious

Question: How many modes does perception occur in according to Whitehead?
Answer: two

Question: What is prehension used to define?
Answer: a kind of perception that can be conscious or unconscious, applying to people as well as electrons

Question: What does the term "prehension" signify regarding an entities perceptions and relations?
Answer: entities are constituted by their perceptions and relations, rather than being independent of them

Question: What did Whitehead state are the two types of perception?
Answer: causal efficacy (or "physical prehension") and presentational immediacy (or "conceptual prehension")

Question: How do the senses affect causal efficacy?
Answer: unmediated by the senses

Question: What can be said about the accuracy of presentational immediacy?
Answer: it is pure appearance, which may or may not be delusive

Question: What is the term for the experience dominating primitive organisms that have a sense for fate?
Answer: causal efficacy

Question: What is the other term for "pure sense perception"?
Answer: Presentational immediacy

Question: What is it called if you mistake a reflection in a mirror for the real thing?
Answer: Presentational immediacy

Question: How does Whitehead define causal efficacy?
Answer: "the experience dominating the primitive living organisms, which have a sense for the fate from which they have emerged, and the fate towards which they go."

Question: How does Whitehead define presentational immediacy?
Answer: "pure sense perception", unmediated by any causal or symbolic interpretation, even unconscious interpretation

Question: Which concept does Whitehead state is more dominant in a lower mentality?
Answer: causal relationships

Question: What is Whitehead's term for the two modes of perceptions combining?
Answer: symbolic reference

Question: What dominates more basic mentality in symbolic reference?
Answer: causal relationships

Question: What does symbolic reference link appearance with?
Answer: causation

Question: What does having sense perceptions conclude about a person?
Answer: higher grade mentality

Question: What is the purpose of symbolic reference?
Answer: links appearance with causation in a process that is so automatic that both people and animals have difficulty refraining from it

Question: How does Whitehead describe the process of a typical person noticing a chair?
Answer: An ordinary person looks up, sees a colored shape, and immediately infers that it is a chair

Question: How might an artist view a chair differently than a typical person?
Answer: "might have stopped at the mere contemplation of a beautiful color and a beautiful shape."

Question: How does Whitehead say a dog may interpret the presence of a chair?
Answer: "would have acted immediately on the hypothesis of a chair and would have jumped onto it by way of using it as such."

Question: What observation did Whitehead make about life?
Answer: "life is comparatively deficient in survival value."

Question: What did Whitehead state was the biggest indicator of a higher form of life?
Answer: they are actively engaged in modifying their environment

Question: What did Whitehead believe are the goals f life?
Answer: living, living well, and living better

Question: What did Whitehead believe was the fundamental purpose of life?
Answer: increasing its own satisfaction

Question: Whitehead observes that life is deficient in what?
Answer: survival value

Question: What are higher life forms actively engaged in?
Answer: modifying their environment

Question: How many goals of living is there?
Answer: three

Question: Whitehead sees life as directed towards what purpose?
Answer: increasing its own satisfaction

Question: Without Whitehead's proposed purpose, life would be what?
Answer: unintelligible

Question: What was Whitehead's response to questions about why complex life evolved?
Answer: "they certainly did not appear because they were better at that game than the rocks around them."

Question: What was Whitehead's description of God?
Answer: "the brief Galilean vision of humility"

Question: What is Whitehead's most well-known critical statement regarding the Christian notion of God?
Answer: "the Church gave unto God the attributes which belonged exclusively to Caesar."

Question: What qualities dis Whitehead state that Christians attributed to their version of God?
Answer: primarily a divine king who imposes his will on the world, and whose most important attribute is power

Question: What was Whitehead's belief about God in relation to religion?
Answer: God is not necessarily tied to religion

Question: In what did Whitehead believe that those concepts existed?
Answer: primordial nature of God

Question: What did Whitehead view as the second nature of God?
Answer: the consequent nature

Question: What type of God did Whitehead believe existed?
Answer: dipolar

Question: Why did Whitehead view the existence of God as a necessity for his metaphysical system?
Answer: His system required that an order exist among possibilities, an order that allowed for novelty in the world and provided an aim to all entities.

Question: How does Whitehead define he consequent nature of God?
Answer: God's reception of the world's activity