Will, Preception, Actualization

As has been previously defined here, 'Preception' is the 'process of carrying out some plan of action'. Since that process combines indefinite Motility and some representation, it combines Will and Comprehension. Furthermore, because the products of Preception are actual, the process can also be called 'Actualization'. For example, insofar as a circle is actual, the process that produces it--physiological motions guided by the plan formulated as 'the drawing of a figure in which one end is fixed and the other is free'--is Actualization. Now, any such formulation is, according to Spinoza, an adequate idea, and, hence, is one aspect of divine creativity. In other words, Spinoza's 'natura naturans' is the process of Actualization.