Griffin, David Ray.  “The Possibility of Subjective Immortality in Whitehead’s Philosophy.” Modern Schoolman 53 (1975): 39-57.

Abstract

The article explains Whitehead’s statement that his philosophy allows for the possibility that the human psyche might continue to have new experiences after bodily death. The animal psyche is distinct and different in degree but not in kind from the bodily actualities–hence the differences from materialism, epiphenomenalism, and dualism. While the psyche could not have emerged apart from the bodily organization, certain distinctive characteristics of the human psyche suggest that it might be able to survive apart from this particular environment. Special attention is given to how Whitehead’s cosmology makes human freedom, in the sense of genuine self-determination, conceivable.