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Hartshorne evidently tries to get more out of our immediate experience than is given in it – -- and that not only in one direction but in two. He tries to get "feeling of feeling" out of both what we remember and perceive of the past, including God, and what we anticipate of the future, again, including God. Thus, by his account, we feel both the feelings of others, God included, as contributory to our own feelings and the feelings of others, God again included, as bound to be contributed to in turn by our feelings.

But all that Hartshorne is entitled to get out of our immediate experience is simply that we are internally related to other concretes in the past even as we are also internally related to other concretes in the future – -- not, to be sure, as such, as already concrete, but as bound to be internally related to us as and when some of them, at least, become concrete. In other words, there's no more immediate experience of God qua "an inclusive experience," or "a super-experience," than there is immediate experience of the cells of our central nervous system qua "centers of feeling" on an indefinitely lower, subhuman level.

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