Discussing “The Blind Spot” (2024) with Timothy Jackson

Tim joined me to discuss Frank, Gleiser, and Thompson’s new book.

Below are some timestamps of what we covered in this long conversation:

0:10 The contemporary urban life-world

10:36 In defense of “direct experience”

19:26 Life is a surprise to physics?

35:45 Real time vs. Clock time

42:13 Organization precedes Evolution?

1:04:27 Organicism includes mechanism; beyond evolution by survivability and cosmic teloi

1:28:47 Kantian residues in the autopoietic account of “outside”

1:43:55 Criticisms of Bayesian Brain/Predictive Processing accounts of consciousness

2:03:24 Model-centrism and misplaced concreteness

2:14:36 Is pure experience pre-conceptual? Whitehead’s conceptual prehensions…

2:24:50 A new approach in neuroscience: Neurophenomenology