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Reading passages such as this, I'm struck that, while Hartshorne can explain the difference between "feeling" and "thinking," and thus between our distinctively (adult) human way of experiencing, on the one hand, and that of nonhuman animals (as well as human infants), on the other – -- namely, as lying in "our symbolic power" – -- he cannot, or, at any rate, does not, do very much to further explain the difference between animate experience generally and lower, inanimate levels of experience. In fact, he hardly does anything at all beyond invoking his distinction between "an active singular" and "an aggregate of singulars" ("Physics and Psychics": 95). (His distinction between having and not having a central nervous system pertains solely to "animate experience" in his broad sense of the term to include individual cells as animals.)

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