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" ‘there is nothing in the world which is merely an inert fact. Every reality is there for feeling: it promotes feeling; and it is felt’. 

(Whitehead makes explicit his most general assumption concerning affectivity)

This general assumption makes affectivity, in the guise of feeling, an integral and decisively important aspect of nature - human and non-human, living and non-living, and, decisively, the site of the novelty of becoming: ‘each actual entity is conceived as an act of experience arising out of data. It is a process of “feeling” the many data…' Here “feeling” is the term used for the basic generic operation of passing from the objectivity of the data to the subjectivity of the actual entity in question. Feelings… effect… a transition into subjectivity.’ (Whitehead, 1927/8, p. 41).

He "experienced a flash of heightened consciousness on discovering the packet of crisps in his jacket pocket. 
That flash of consciousness ‘felt like liberation, strangely like joy’ 
(McEwan, 2010, p. 127)."

notes from "Affectivity", essay by Monica Greco and Paul Stenner, July 2013