Alfred North Whitehead, answered from the texts and cited to the page.
The satisfaction is the culmination of concrescence — that final phase in which all indetermination as to the realization of possibilities has been eliminated, and the many feelings of an actual occasion are integrated into one completely determinate matter of fact.1 Let me say more precisely what this means. A feeling, in the process of concrescence, can be considered in four respects: the actual occasions felt, the eternal objects felt, the feelings felt, and the subjective forms of intensity that belong to it.2
These diverse feelings do not remain separate; they pass on to wider generalities of integral feeling, each wider generality being a feeling of a complex of feelings, until the concrete unity of feeling is obtained.3 At that point — and only at that point — is the satisfaction reached. The actual occasion just is the unity to be ascribed to a particular instance of concrescence, and the satisfaction is the name for the completion of that unity.4
More formally: the satisfaction is fully determinate in three respects — as to its genesis, as to its objective character for the transcendent creativity, and as to its prehension, positive or negative, of every item in its universe.5 Nothing is left hanging; no indetermination survives into the satisfaction. Every element in the genetic process of the occasion has one self-consistent function, however complex, in that final phase.6
There is something worth dwelling on here. The occasion, in its antecedent stages, exhibits sheer indetermination as to the nexus between its many components.7 Becoming is precisely the transformation of incoherence into coherence, and in each particular instance ceases with this attainment.8 The satisfaction is therefore not a stage through which the occasion passes — it is the cessation of becoming, the moment at which the occasion is fully what it is, and thereupon perishes into objective immortality for subsequent occasions to prehend.
An entity is actual when it has significance for itself; the satisfaction is the culmination of that self-significance, the point at which self-creation is complete.9
The 'satisfaction' is the culmination of the concrescence into a completely determinate matter of fact.Process and Reality, pp. 237–238
A feeling can be considered in respect to (i) the actual occasions felt, (ii) the eternal objects felt, (iii) the feelings felt, and (iv) its own subjective forms of intensity.Process and Reality, pp. 237–238
In the process of concrescence the diverse feelings pass on to wider generalities of integral feeling. Such a wider generality is a feeling of a complex of feelings, including their specific elements of identity and contrast. This process of the integration of feeling proceeds until the concrete unity of feeling is obtained.Process and Reality, pp. 237–238
An actual occasion is nothing but the unity to be ascribed to a particular instance of concrescence.Process and Reality, pp. 237–238
This final phase is termed the 'satisfaction.' It is fully determinate (a) as to its genesis, (b) as to its objective character for the transcendent creativity, and (c) as to its prehension—positive or negative—of every item in its universe.Process and Reality, pp. 52–53
Each element in the genetic process of an actual entity has one self-consistent function, however complex, in the final satisfaction.Process and Reality, pp. 52–53
In any of its antecedent stages the concrescence exhibits sheer indetermination as to the nexus between its many components.Process and Reality, pp. 237–238
Thus 'becoming' is the transformation of incoherence into coherence, and in each particular instance ceases with this attainment.Process and Reality, pp. 52–53
An entity is actual, when it has significance for itself. By this it is meant that an actual entity functions in respect to its own determination.Process and Reality, pp. 52–53