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I'm always impressed how JM so seemlessly switches over from an internet video to an internet video. ;) Seriously though, as usual, I truly appreciate another insightful internet interview.
Thank you for this highly stimulating interview or should I say conversation. Dr. Segall breaks down Whitehead succinctly and clearly and he is therefore much appreciated by this listener. On another note, this concern for the possibility of human extinction which Dr. Segall mentions at the end of the interview is a deeply felt and ancient concern. Perhaps in an earlier time, a much earlier time, the human community, when dwarfed in population to a mere handful of families ranging in possibly as few as a couple of hundred souls, pondered this very same issue. We might regard ourselves as ill adapted to the environment. What do we possess to ensure the continuity of our species? We posses no claws, prehensile tail, limbs that move at fast speeds, muscular brawn, sharp incisors, fur for the cold, and thick hide. Indeed, we cannot even generate our own vitamin C to add to the list of our limitations. And yet we survive by our own wits no less. How is this so? If we learned what we know purely through the incremental but slow gathering of empirical knowledge testing the environment such as discerning, through this trial and error, what mushrooms to eat and which ones to avoid, would we even be here today? That civilization requires constant vigilance from the existential threats outside but also inside our very psyches has perhaps been our concern since before we gazed upon the heavens above and recognized the precise motions of the stars and planets. Then our current concern about the possibility and what seems to many as the high probability of our physical extinction is an age old worry. We live day-by-day by our wits but place little trust in our ability to think things through. Today we survive and manage to muddle through but tomorrow . . . And the future always hangs perilously over us as our Damoclean sword ever fearful of it falling upon us.
Right on the money with Whitehead, thanks for the upload. One of the commentators spoke of logic being a subset of aesthetics, an aesthetic underlying logic. I've been shaping ideas around movement for a while and I think I know this framework. Form and Function are not alone, in some way, their essence is determined by Flow. I have flow at the root of an inverted pyramid form and function becoming a spectrum at the top. Attention, Perception, Awareness, and effort all flow/tend toward a path of least resistance. Forms and functions are emphasised through expressions and they resonate back through the senses. In human relations this arrangement illustrates another relevant distinction. Underlying the 3f frame is a flow of stress and creative exuberance. On any physical interaction we necessarily have to follow two streams of stress and creative expression, our own and the othwr persons. It's nice we find ways of combining them.
I would have liked to have heard more on Whitehead understanding that there are no discrete things that will not change over time. Everything is in process or a flow that come about from a near infinite number of relationships and conditions producing what an individual would call experiences. That all seemingly solid things of matter experience, from what I remember. This is experience that we have is all that we can really claim as being reality, our reality arising from conditioner and relationships that are in flux. Whitehead believed that experience was ultimately the only thing that we can point to as being fundamental to what we can understand of reality. We can point to an infinite number of connections and conditions but fundamentally what we can know of anything is our experience which unfolds in a process and is not static. I could be wrong, but I would have liked Whitehead's philosophy better explained.
41:19 it's a danger associating emotions with complexities that might have no distinguishing framework for that human information. Information is carried in an impulse and any fragment of information can form emotional fractals that reflect the information packaged in them. We really must learn more about emotions and the work they serve in the flow of mood and attitude through expression... Great show!
Im learning a lot from your in depth fun interview s . Thanks so much for continuing this great show . Im sure much of the interview goes way beyond my knowledge ! But you mentioned Willam James . Are either of you familiar with Jane Roberts book on William James ? The Title of her book is The Afterdeath Journal Of An American Philosopher/ The World View Of William James . Its quite good imo . Just wanted to share it. Thanks Again ❤
Just my take, and as Matt alluded to, the Idealists and panpsychists are a positive sign, but Whitehead really has squared an ever enlarging circle … one that Kastrup, Hoffman etc, to my mind, haven’t.
