THE PUBLIC NOTEBOOK OF MATTHEW DAVID SEGALL
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“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.” -A. N. Whitehead
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Thinkers, questions, and recurring themes from twenty years of writing.
Albert Einstein Alfred North Whitehead Ancient Philosophy Aristotle autopoiesis Brian Swimme Bruno Latour Carl Jung Copernican Revolution Daniel Dennett Darwin Descartes Evan Thompson Fichte Francisco Varela Galileo Gilles Deleuze Goethe Graham Harman Hegel Heidegger Henri Bergson Hume imagination Isabelle Stengers Kant Levi Bryant Modern Philosophy Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Plato poetry politics reason Religion Richard Dawkins Romantic Philosophy Rudolf Steiner Schelling speculative realism William James
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- Alan Watts (27)
- Albert Einstein (86)
- Alfred North Whitehead (563)
- Ancient Philosophy (198)
- Andreas Weber (1)
- Andy Clark (6)
- Aristotle (117)
- autopoiesis (100)
- Brian Swimme (69)
- Bruno Latour (82)
- Carl Jung (64)
- Catherine Keller (37)
- Coleridge (27)
- Copernican Revolution (83)
- Corey Anton (3)
- Daniel Dennett (48)
- Darwin (168)
- David Chalmers (29)
- Descartes (161)
- Donna Haraway (34)
- Edmund Husserl (32)
- Emmanuel Levinas (11)
- Eric Smith (7)
- Ernst Cassirer (3)
- Evan Thompson (67)
- Extended Mind (34)
- Fichte (47)
- Francisco Varela (62)
- Galileo (65)
- Gilles Deleuze (74)
- Goethe (75)
- Graham Harman (53)
- Hegel (133)
- Heidegger (52)
- Henri Bergson (77)
- Heraclitus (30)
- Herbert Marcuse (2)
- Hume (63)
- Iain Hamilton Grant (37)
- imagination (505)
- Isabelle Stengers (61)
- Jakob Böhme (27)
- James Hillman (17)
- Jean Gebser (25)
- Jessica Garfield-Kabbara (2)
- john Keats (12)
- Kant (235)
- Ken Wilber (17)
- Kepler (23)
- Leibniz (3)
- Leron Shults (1)
- Levi Bryant (48)
- Meister Eckhart (13)
- Modern Philosophy (391)
- Owen Barfield (33)
- Paul Churchland (5)
- Philip Clayton (3)
- Pierre Hadot (4)
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (67)
- Plato (235)
- Pluto (3)
- poetry (100)
- politics (125)
- Ptolemy (9)
- PZ Myers (16)
- quentin meillassoux (15)
- race (35)
- Raimon Panikkar (13)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (16)
- Ray Brassier (17)
- reason (233)
- Religion (329)
- Richard Dawkins (48)
- Richard Doyle (4)
- Richard Tarnas (42)
- Robert N. Bellah (17)
- Romantic Philosophy (175)
- Rudolf Steiner (112)
- Schelling (225)
- Sean Kelly (24)
- Seth Segall (1)
- Simon Critchley (9)
- Simone Weil (2)
- Slavoj Žižek (12)
- Socrates (24)
- speculative realism (45)
- Spinoza (33)
- Steven Shaviro (15)
- Thomas Berry (16)
- Timothy Morton (16)
- Travel (10)
- Ursula King (2)
- William Blake (10)
- William Irwin Thompson (9)
- William James (109)
- Wittgenstein (25)
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THE LIVING NOTEBOOK
Recent writing
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“Philosophy in the Age of Technoscience: Why We Need the Humanities to Navigate AI and Consciousness”
I ended up giving a brief (10 minute) impromptu talk at Edge Esmeralda today, and this is a transcript of what came out: Hey, everyone, can you hear me okay if…
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Human Consciousness and Machine Intelligence
I sat down with my friend Kent Bye earlier today to discuss the intensifying entanglement of human consciousness with machine intelligences. He read my recent chapter on the philosophical implications of AI and…
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The Mind is Not the Brain, and the Brain is Not a Computer (Dialogue with Victoria Trumbull)
Matt: Hi, Victoria! How are you doing this morning? Victoria: Good. Well, it’s evening for me here in England. Matt: Right. Well, really lovely to connect with you. Victoria: Yes! Matt: I wish I…
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The Invariance of Variation: Or Why Metaphysics Must Become Ungrounded (Dialogue with Tim Jackson)
Above, Tim Jackson and I dialogue about a number of conversations we watched, including: Matt Segall: So this is going to be laid back. We didn’t read anything, but…
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Goals Go All the Way Down: Responding to the Deacon-Levin Dialogue
I’m grateful to Tevin Naidu for getting Deacon and Levin together. They only had 90 minutes but still managed to cover a lot of territory, including where they overlap and where…
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