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Alfred North Whitehead's process philosophy explicitly addresses the concept of 'mind' by positing that it is not a fundamental substance separate from matter, as described in his ontology [1] and interpreted through the lens of 'actual occasions' in his process thinking [2].

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Quantum Approaches to Consciousness plato.stanford.edu Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 2 facts

claimIn a 2006 interview, Henry Stapp specified that in his approach, which draws on Alfred North Whitehead's process thinking, 'actual occasions' are the fundamental elements of reality rather than matter or mind.

claimIn Alfred North Whitehead's ontology, the potential antecedents of actual occasions are psychophysically neutral, representing a mode of existence where mind and matter are unseparated.