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Fundamental Units of Reality According to Whitehead
Actual occasions are the fundamental units of reality for Whitehead, representing entities with their own experiential point of view. These units can form societies, like electrons or humans, which are aggregates of actual entities sharing a pattern from eternal objects. Enduring things like chairs are not societies but human concepts. Whitehead believes that everything is an organism, blurring the line between organic and inorganic substances. While actual entities have their own subjectivity, aggregates like chairs do not, making a distinction between units of experience and aggregates.