Planetarity: On Human Futures
Had the pleasure of dialoguing with my good friends Adam Robbert and Jesse Estrin once again (prior session from May 2018). Inspired in part by this Palladium interview with Benjamin Bratton.
View ArticleHuman Energy Project podcast interview by David Sloan Wilson
Bruce Damer and I joined David Sloan Wilson on the Human Energy Project podcast for a conversation about the Hot Spring Abiogenesis Hypothesis and its cosmological implications. This was recorded late...
View ArticleHunger for Wholeness podcast with Dr. Ilia Delio
I had a wonderful conversation with Ilia Delio and Gabbi Sloan a few weeks ago, Part 1 of which was just released here. We discuss a number of topics, including the problem of evil. Part 2 continues...
View ArticleThe Integral Stage Authors Series (interview by Layman Pascal about “Crossing...
I’ve pasted the transcript below with timestamps (this is autogenerated from YouTube and so has some errors, but it is readable!). 0:34 welcome back to the author series on guess what The Integral...
View ArticleRudolf Steiner and Racism
As a teacher, I do my best to actively encourage deep and sustained dialogue about the racism, implicit or explicit, that shows up in the statements or actions of any figure studied with my students....
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Summary Reflections on Rudolf Steiner’s “Interdisciplinary Astronomy” (GA 323)
Our Urphänomen reading group is back in action, this time reading Steiner’s lecture cycle titled Interdisciplinary Astronomy (1921, GA 323). Frederick Amrine recently published a wonderful new...
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Process Theology and the Modern World: Science, Religion, and Christology...
Below is a draft of my chapter to be published as part of an anthology coming out of the Teilhard and Whitehead conference hosted by the Center for Christogenesis at Villanova University a few weeks...
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Science, Religion, and Earth Evolution: Thinking With Teilhard and Whitehead
I gave this presentation at my graduate program’s retreat earlier this week.
View ArticleCosmic History in Steiner and Whitehead (dialogue with Formscapes)
This was a really fun conversation with Formscapes (check out his content on YouTube). The dialogue begins with Whitehead’s ideas on hybrid prehension and how they might relate to Steiner’s...
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 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 ArticleWhat is Metamodern Christianity?
Yesterday, I listened to this wonderful dialogue between Brendan Graham Dempsey and John Vervaeke: They discuss Brendan’s proposal of a “metamodern” Christianity and explore the potential to reclaim...
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Evolution as Cosmic Cognition (dialogue with Richard Watson)
Matt Segall: Well, where do I want to begin? Richard, I know that you do a lot of work on evolutionary theory and evolution as a learning process or a cognitive process. While you have a lot of...
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Evolution as a Universal Learning Process
“Meaning arises out of the most fundamental dynamics of the physical world: energy and information…[I]t is precisely via the thermodynamic forces driving cosmic evolution as a whole that meaning...
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The Relevance of Whitehead’s Process Theology to Natural Science
Below is a rough transcript of a Cobb Institute class lecture I gave earlier today. I’m going to speak a little bit about the relevance, as I see it, of process theology to natural science. Whitehead...
View ArticleDiscussing C. S. Peirce’s “A Guess at the Riddle” with Tim Jackson
A rough transcript: Matt Segall: Hey, Tim? One sec. Just getting my earmuffs on here. Timothy Jackson: Oh, good! Matt Segall: There we go! Hey! How’s it going? Timothy Jackson: Yeah, not too bad,...
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Reflections on the Whitehead Centennial at Emerson Hall
My trip to Harvard gave me occasion to reflect not only on Whitehead’s legacy, but on his resonances with Emerson and their shared vision of philosophical education. It was raining Thursday afternoon...
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Christianity Beyond Itself (Dialogue with Jacob Kishere)
Transcript by ChatGPT: Host (Jacob Kishere): All right, welcome to Sense Space. Really, really happy to be joined today by Matthew Segall. Matthew has been connecting with a number of my friends and...
View ArticleChrist After Christianity: Metamodern Reconstructions of Religion (dialogue...
Transcript: Brendan Graham Dempsey: Hey? How’s it going? Brendan Graham Dempsey: Good to see you, too, man? Matt Segall: Yeah. Brendan Graham Dempsey: Who’s that? Matt Segall: This is Philo. Matt...
View ArticleThe Evolution of Consciousness and the Destiny of America (Dialogue with...
My friend Kehlan (Formscapes) and I jumped on a livestream last night with no particular agenda in mind. We ended up having a 3-hour, unsurprisingly wide-ranging dialogue that began with a comparison...
View ArticleEvolution: Theory or Theology? – Reflections on Whitehead, Wolfgang Smith,...
Two years ago, I sat down with the late philosopher and physicist, Wolfgang Smith, to discuss his novel approach to quantum physics and the need for a return to Platonic conceptions of reality. You...
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