What is "prehends"

Usage examples of "prehends".

Whitehead's pre-hensive unification is the present, subjective holon passing as object into the succeeding present, subjective holon, so that every holon prehends its entire actual universe, and lives on in the prehensive unification of all its descendants ("causality")with, of course, the whole series showing gradation (hierarchy), depending upon the degree of creativity injected into the stream at any given moment.