Process Philosophy, as explained in Alfred North Whitehead's Process and Reality, theorizes that the fundamental elements of the universe are occasions of experience. The material world is merely a succession of occasions of experience. In fact, Whitehead coined the phrase "Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness" to denote thinking something is a concrete reality when in fact it is merely a concept about the way things are.
Within Process Philosophy, all experiences are influenced by backward facing poles of preceding experiences and have forward facing poles that will influence future experiences. An occasion of experience consists of a process of "prehending" (Whitehead's term) past experiences and then reacting to them. The reaction is in the form of a choice the occasion of experience makes, essentially Free Will.
The complementary "I" is remarkably similar in nature to Whitehead's "occasions of experience". Moreover, interpenetration lays a foundation for the "prehending”, which is grasping or taking hold of, the antecedent environment.
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