Successiveness and Teleology

The classical model of it formulates an experience as a transition from S is P to S is Q. Variations on the model include the observation that every such transition entails continuity between P and Q, or the analysis that each P and Q itself signifies a transition. Whitehead's main innovation in this respect is to challenge the substratum-modification structure of all these varieties, by proposing, instead, that every new experience is constituted by the creation of a new subject, a creation which becomes complete at the termination of the experience. Hence, on Whitehead's model, Experience can be formulated as a teleological transition from S to S-prime. Similarly, in terms of that model, Successiveness is not merely a transition from moment A to moment B, but one in which A becomes B, i. e. one in which A is an incomplete stage of B. In other words, in Whitehead's model of Experience, Successiveness, and, hence, Temporality, is teleological.