Will, Comprehension, Petite Mort

The experience of a sudden realization affords a fleeting glimpse at how the process of Comprehension immanently both dynamically synthesizes a manifold, and effects its closure. It also confirms Whitehead's insight that the moment of Satisfaction in a Concrescence is never objectively experienced by a subject, but is one into which the given subject itself gets absorbed. Accordingly, the term 'petite mort', more commonly used to describe the moment of biological satisfaction, can be similarly generalized. Now, just as information-processing is for Whitehead only a special case of Concrescence, in Formaterialism, Comprehension, most generally, serves a homeostatic function in an organism, including that of the stabilization of Motility, i. e. of Will. Hence, Comprehension can be said to effect the petite mort of Will.