"The Blind Spot" (2024): A Critical and Reconstructive Review with Timothy Jackson

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"The Blind Spot" (2024): A Critical and Reconstructive Review with Timothy Jackson

Tim joined me to talk about the core chapters of Frank, Gleiser, and Thompson's new book focused on life, cognition, and consciousness

Matthew David Segall

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Timothy Jackson

Jun 27, 2024

What is the ontology of evolution? Does it have a direction? What are its a priori conditions, if any?

What if Whitehead is right that life strives not only to survive but also to thrive and evolve towards greater complexity and sensitivity?

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Matthew David Segall

Jun 21

Review of The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience (MIT Press, 2024) by Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, and Evan Thompson By Matthew David Segall In The Blind Spot, Frank, Gleiser, and Thompson offer an urgent philosophical intervention into humanity’s all but doomed technoscientific civilizational project. The authors argue cogently that o…

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More Reflections on "The Blind Spot"

Matthew David Segall

Jun 26

These are rough notes that capture some of my ongoing reflections after re-reading the core chapters of The Blind Spot on Life, Cognition, and Consciousness. You can read my original review of the book here: I collected the notes below in preparation for a podcast dialogue tomorrow with biologist Timothy Jackson. Stay tuned for that!

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