What Wilson seems to have missed is that this same idea was worked out in elegant and comprehensive detail by Alfred North Whitehead in his book, Process and Reality , published in 1929, surely one of the great books of this century. No, of course not. According to process thought, the dynamics of reality is the interaction of the many and the one, with various levels and kinds of oneness and manyness. Atoms and molecules are actual entities, as are you and your cat, or the individual cells of your body.
All actual entities feel or experience, at least to some degree.
Rocks and tables and automobiles are not actual entities, but aggregates whose microconstituents are actual entities. Such aggregates do not feel or experience. It is through prehension, or creative synthesis, that an actual entity, as subject, inherits from the past, and the key to all concrete relationships is this subject-object structure. Prehension, as the general principle of causality, explains the solidarity of the universe. To be is to be related.