CONCEPT
The Satisfaction
The completed pattern of a concrescence — the occasion in its achieved determinate character, the point at which the process of becoming perishes into the objectified datum of the past.
The satisfaction is the culmination of concrescence: the moment when the many data have been integrated into one novel unity and the occasion achieves its definite character. The word is technical, not psychological. Whitehead does not mean contentment or pleasure. He means the objective fact of the occasion's definiteness — this is what the occasion has become, and no further becoming is possible for it. With the satisfaction achieved, the occasion perishes as a subject and becomes a datum available for subsequent occasions to prehend.
In The You On AI Field Guide
The satisfaction is the hinge between becoming and being in Whitehead's system. While an occasion is concrescing, it is a subject — an active process of integration with its own subjective aim. Once it achieves satisfaction, it is an object — a settled fact, a datum, part of the furniture of the past that future occasions must reckon with. This double aspect (subject-in-becoming, object-after-perishing) is what allows the universe to exhibit