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
What do you think?