Context: Since Whitehead's metaphysics described a universe in which all entities experience, he needed a new way of describing perception that was not limited to living, self-conscious beings. The term he coined was "prehension", which comes from the Latin prehensio, meaning "to seize." The term is meant to indicate a kind of perception that can be conscious or unconscious, applying to people as well as electrons. It is also intended to make clear Whitehead's rejection of the theory of representative perception, in which the mind only has private ideas about other entities. For Whitehead, the term "prehension" indicates that the perceiver actually incorporates aspects of the perceived thing into itself. In this way, entities are constituted by their perceptions and relations, rather than being independent of them. Further, Whitehead regards perception as occurring in two modes, causal efficacy (or "physical prehension") and presentational immediacy (or "conceptual prehension").

Question: What term did Whitehead describe that perception is not limited to the living?
Answer: prehension

Question: What language does the term "prehensio" come from?
Answer: Latin

Question: What does the word "Prehensio" translate into?
Answer: to seize

Question: What entities does the term prehension apply to?
Answer: conscious or unconscious

Question: How many modes does perception occur in according to Whitehead?
Answer: two

Question: What is the origin of the word "prehension"?
Answer: comes from the Latin prehensio, meaning "to seize."

Question: What is prehension used to define?
Answer: a kind of perception that can be conscious or unconscious, applying to people as well as electrons

Question: What is a basic description of the theory of representative perception?
Answer: the mind only has private ideas about other entities

Question: What does the term "prehension" signify regarding an entities perceptions and relations?
Answer: entities are constituted by their perceptions and relations, rather than being independent of them

Question: What did Whitehead state are the two types of perception?
Answer: causal efficacy (or "physical prehension") and presentational immediacy (or "conceptual prehension")

Question: What does the term "prehension" signify regarding an entities nonperceptions and nonrelations?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What is a basic description of the theory of non-representative perception?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question:  What is not the origin of the word "prehension"?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What is prehension used to not define?
Answer: Unanswerable