#153 - A Process Perspective on Human Life: John Dupré on Panpsychism, Holobionts, the Paradoxes of Speciation, Dynamics of Human Evolution, Theseus's Ship, and Processual Mechanics

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“Change’ is the description of the adventures of eternal objects in the evolving universe of actual things.” 
― Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality 

Table of Contents:

(00:00:00) - Intro

(00:06:05) - Why All Life is Process

(00:57:00) - Evolution

(01:50:03) - Humans and their Fellow Travelers

(02:40:55) - Personal Identity

(03:29:03) - Human Nature and Human Kinds

(04:22:27) - Free Will

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Links:

YouTube Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLk7ofv8uXTXKArPNO3_ATFepVNVrSfHMN&si=dZ8Im6EBhr4gc_rO

Original YouTube Page (University of Edinburgh): https://www.youtube.com/@EdinburghUniversity

Gifford Lectures Info Page for Dupré: https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/gifford-lectures/2023/05/02/john-dupre-a-world-of-things