Context: Perhaps foremost among what Whitehead considered faulty metaphysical assumptions was the Cartesian idea that reality is fundamentally constructed of bits of matter that exist totally independently of one another, which he rejected in favor of an event-based or "process" ontology in which events are primary and are fundamentally interrelated and dependent on one another. He also argued that the most basic elements of reality can all be regarded as experiential, indeed that everything is constituted by its experience. He used the term "experience" very broadly, so that even inanimate processes such as electron collisions are said to manifest some degree of experience. In this, he went against Descartes' separation of two different kinds of real existence, either exclusively material or else exclusively mental. Whitehead referred to his metaphysical system as "philosophy of organism", but it would become known more widely as "process philosophy."

Question: What idea states that reality is fundamentally constructed of bits of matter?
Answer: Cartesian idea

Question: Whitehead rejected the Cartesian idea in favor of what?
Answer: an event-based or "process" ontology

Question: Whitehead believed instead of matter existing independently of each other, it did what?
Answer: interrelated and dependent

Question: Whitehead believed that reality should be regarded as what?
Answer: experiential

Question: Whitehead's system as "philosophy of organism" became widely known as what term?
Answer: process philosophy

Question: What Cartesian concept did Whitehead believe to be erroneous?
Answer: reality is fundamentally constructed of bits of matter that exist totally independently of one another

Question: What theory did Whitehead prefer to the Cartesian concept?
Answer: event-based or "process" ontology in which events are primary and are fundamentally interrelated and dependent on one another

Question: How did whitehead define "experience"?
Answer: He used the term "experience" very broadly, so that even inanimate processes such as electron collisions are said to manifest some degree of experience

Question: How did Descartes' distinguish types of existence?
Answer: two different kinds of real existence, either exclusively material or else exclusively mental

Question: How did Whitehead identify his system of metaphysics?
Answer: "philosophy of organism"

Question: What Cartesian concept did Whitehead believe to be correct?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question:  What theory did Whitehead not prefer to the Cartesian concept?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question:  How did whitehead define "inexperience"?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question:  How did Whitehead identify his system of math?
Answer: Unanswerable