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Wiki MarkupAccording to Whitehead, to give "a general description of this \ [_sc._ our own\] personal unity, divesting it of minor details of humanity" is to acquire "at once the doctrine of the unity of nature, and of the unity of each human life." He continues:  \\ 

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The conclusion follows that our consciousness of the self-identity pervading our life-thread of occasions, is nothing other than knowledge of a special strand of unity within the general unity of nature. It is a locus within the whole, marked out by its own peculiarities, but otherwise exhibiting the general principle which guides the constitution of the whole. The is general principle is the object-to-subject structure of experience. It can be otherwise stated as the vector-structure of nature. Or otherwise, it can be conceived as the doctrine of the immanence of the past energizing in the present (Adventures of Ideas: 240 f.).

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