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Prehension
Prehension meaning
The act of grasping or gripping, especially with the hands. | According to Alfred North Whitehead, a type of universally acting perception that is not limited to living, self-conscious beings, and which involves an interconnectedness of the observer and the observed.
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For Whitehead, the term "prehension" indicates that the perceiver actually incorporates aspects of the perceived thing into itself.