 Randall E. Auxier and Gary L. Herstein (2017) maintain, on the contrary, that a Whiteheadian view is friendlier to conceiving God as a person than Hartshorne’s view. Their argument turns on the idea of negative prehensions, that is, experience which “eliminates [certain data] from feeling” (Whitehead 1929 [1978, 23]). According to Auxier and Herstein, one cannot be a person or experience temporal passage apart from negative prehensions, which, they say, allow distinctions both between what was and what might-have-been and between what will-be and what might-be (Auxier and Herstein 2017, 243 and 265). Hartshorne consistently rejected the idea of negative prehensions in God whereas Whitehead, at least in some of his statements, seemed to allow for them. The metaphysical issues run deep; suffice it to say that Hartshorne distinguished the actual and the possible in ways that diverged significantly from Whitehead (see Ramal 2010, 139–157).