Whitehead, God, & Value: Dialogue with Darren Iammarino and Andrew Davis
Following my first conversation with Darren, Andrew joined us to continue the dialogue about some of the technical aspects of Whitehead’s theology. Above is a clip of my speculation about how...
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The Process of Metaphysics and the Metaphysics of Process
obviously we all have a metaphysics – at minimum a set of axioms we assume about the world. However my aversion to metaphysics as it tends to be practiced in the wild are numerous:1. That people think...
View ArticleConference Update – Metaphysics and the Matter With Things: Thinking With...
Andrew Davis and I sat down with Iain McGilchrist to discuss our upcoming conference at CIIS in San Francisco, March 29-31. In-person tickets have already sold out, but online registration is still...
View ArticleHuman Freedom and the Future of Spirituality (Dialoguing with Roman Campolo)
Roman is a songwriter based out of Los Angeles with credits for K-Pop band BTS and legacy artists like Elton John and Stevie Wonder. The first 15 minutes of this didn’t record because of a technical...
View ArticleThe Art and Science of Improvisation: Dialogue with Merlin Sheldrake and Tim...
I recently had a fascinating conversation with mycologist Merlin Sheldrake and evolutionary toxinologist Tim Jackson. Our discussion revolved around the themes of improvisation, the nature of life,...
View ArticleGod and Nature in Schelling and Whitehead (Dialogue with Rahul Sam)
I had a great time speaking with Rahul over the weekend. He’d been reading my book on Schelling and Whitehead, so we mostly discussed the philosophy of nature and process theology. I began by...
View ArticleSpace, Time, and Religion in the Making (dialogue with Roman Campolo)
Roman and I had another dialogue session to discuss Alfred North Whitehead’s book Religion in the Making (1926). This book lays out Whitehead’s understanding of the evolution of religious...
View ArticleRenewing Philosophy (Dialogue with Tim Adalin)
Tim Adalin hosted me on his Voicecraft podcast to discuss process philosophy and its applications. The conversation opened with an exploration of the relationship between philosophy, the elite, and...
View ArticleDying to be Born (Dialogue with Roman Campolo)
Roman and I sat down for another dialogue. Topics discussed this time include: anatman, evil, relevant novelty, death, the ontological argument for the existence of God and its discontents, and other...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence, Moral Imagination, and Spiritual Evolution (dialogue...
Roman and I had another wide-ranging dialogue. Topics traversed include: artificial intelligence and the increasing automation of human life the elemental agencies that technologies may be expressions...
View ArticleWhitehead and the Free Energy Principle: The Physics and Metaphysics of...
Tim Jackson and I met for another thought jam to explore the interplay between contemporary physics, information theory, biology, and Whitehead’s process philosophy. We got into the ontology of...
View ArticleProcessing Process Ontology (dialogue with Bonnitta Roy and Gregg Henriques)
Bonnie, Gregg, and I met to discuss the interplay between process philosophy and UTOK. We begin by unpacking the status of metaphysics vis à vis science in order to head off some common...
View ArticleAgency and Perception in Whitehead and the Free Energy Principle (dialogue...
Tim and I continue to explore how Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism might intersect with contemporary scientific theories, especially the Free Energy Principle (FEP). The FEP suggests that organisms...
View ArticleFantasy, Science, and Beauty in an Evolving Universe (dialogue with Tim Jackson)
Tim and I continued our dialogue about the Free Energy Principle and Whitehead’s cosmology. I began by recounting a short video of Karl Friston saying all human perception is fantasy. From there we...
View ArticlePlato and Platonism: Dividing the Line and Completing the Cirlce
To listen to the live recording from which this transcript was produced, visit: https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1OwxWYrEnznGQ?s=20 I’m driving home from a talk that AE Robbert just gave at The Alembic in...
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Descendental Philosophy and the Confrontation with Nihilism (dialogue with...
Roman has been reading my book Crossing the Threshold. In this dialogue, we explore Whitehead’s mathematical imagination, theory of perception, and attempt to overcome the nihilism that Nietzsche...
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The Future Impact of Artificial Intelligence
On Wednesday evening (March 13) at Grace Cathedral, I’ll be in dialogue with the Rt. Rev. Dr. Marc Handley Andrus, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of California; Brian Behlendorf, CTO of Open Wallet...
View ArticleWhitehead’s Panprehensionism: A Feeling For Reality (Dialogue with Tim Jackson)
Video timestamps are available on YouTube. Below is Claude 3 Opus’ summary of the transcript (with a few edits by me): In this detailed conversation, Matt, a philosopher, and Tim, a biologist, delve...
View ArticleJim Rutt Show on the Metaphysics of the Origin of Life
Here’s a link to Episode 232 of the Jim Rutt Show, wherein I join Jim to discuss the metaphysical presuppositions and cosmological implications of the Hot Spring Hypothesis of the origin of life. You...
View Article“In Defense of Truth as Participation,” my McGilchrist Conference Presentation
First, here’s a clip of Iain McGilchrist’s impromptu remarks on the opening night of our “Metaphysics and the Matter With Things” conference (which happened to be Good Friday). Next, my welcome and...
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Open and Relational Christianity
Jonathan Foster invited me on his podcast today. The audio will be released in a few weeks. For now, I’m sharing a rough transcript of our conversation. … Jonathan Foster Listeners of podcasts and...
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