generate questions: Since Whitehead's metaphysics described a universe in which all entities experience, he needed a new way of describing perception that was not limited to living, self-conscious beings. The term he coined was "prehension", which comes from the Latin prehensio, meaning "to seize." The term is meant to indicate a kind of perception that can be conscious or unconscious, applying to people as well as electrons. It is also intended to make clear Whitehead's rejection of the theory of representative perception, in which the mind only has private ideas about other entities. For Whitehead, the term "prehension" indicates that the perceiver actually incorporates aspects of the perceived thing into itself. In this way, entities are constituted by their perceptions and relations, rather than being independent of them. Further, Whitehead regards perception as occurring in two modes, causal efficacy (or "physical prehension") and presentational immediacy (or "conceptual prehension").
What is the origin of the word "prehension"? {sep_token} What is a basic description of the theory of representative perception? {sep_token} What term did Whitehead describe that perception is not limited to the living? {sep_token} What language does the term "prehensio" come from? {sep_token} What does the word "Prehensio" translate into? {sep_token} What entities does the term prehension apply to? {sep_token} How many modes does perception occur in according to Whitehead? {sep_token} What is prehension used to define? {sep_token} What does the term "prehension" signify regarding an entities perceptions and relations? {sep_token} What did Whitehead state are the two types of perception? {sep_token}