Whitehead describes causal efficacy as "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." It is, in other words, the sense of causal relations between entities, a feeling of being influenced and affected by the surrounding environment, unmediated by the senses.
How does Whitehead define causal efficacy?
"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."