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Metamodern Spirituality

42. 'Prehension': Is Experience Fundamental? (w/ Matt Segall)

Dec 22, 2023
01:24:28

Whitehead scholar and process thinker Matt Segall joins me to deepen our conversation about responses to the meaning crisis as it relates to reconnecting cosmos, consciousness, and value. In this discussion, we dive into the topic of "prehension," an idea from Whitehead that posits an experiential component to all phenomena in the universe.


0:00 Introduction

5:08 Prehension: Not Interior, but the Interior/Exterior Bridge

12:06 Prehension and Panpsychism

16:27 Identifying Basal Experience: Subjectivity and Time

25:52 Experience and Complexity

33:40 Attempting to Describe Fundamental Experience

47:06 Is Time Subjective?

54:36 Metaphysics and Novelty: Evolving Laws?

1:00:16 The Spectrum of Consciousness

1:04:22 Whitehead vs. Anthroposophy?

1:10:28 Philosophy's Role in a Scientific Age

1:21:43 Next Steps

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