What is Perception?
Whitehead says: Perception in its primary form is consciousness of the causal efficacy of the external world by reason of which the percipient is a concrescence from a definitely constituted datum. Perception, in this primary sense, is perception of the settled world in the past as constituted by its feeling-tones, and as efficacious by reason of those feeling-tones. Perception, in this sense of the term, will be called 'perception in the mode of causal efficacy'.
Tomorrow we read Chapter 5: Perception from A Key to Whitehead's Process and Reality.
Date: 22 November 2011 (Tuesday)
Time: 2.30 pm
Venue: Library, Department of Philosophy, University of Delhi
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