Matthew Segall: Cosmology, Consciousness, and Whitehead's God

Homebrewed Christianity

Dr. Tripp Fuller | Theologian, Philosopher, Minister

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.6 • 612 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2021

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Matthew David Segall returns to the podcast after 8 years! It was a blast to talk with Matt about his new book and a bunch of other process-related goodness. When you get done listening make sure you check out his YouTube channel and the new book. How did Matt end up with cosmological questions finding Alfred North Whitehead through Terence Mckenna "Whitehead is like Psychadelics, you shouldn't jump into them alone" the allure of Whitehead's vision of mind in nature the potential of a process engagement with different sciences Tripp talks about how part five of Process & Reality feels like a philosophical revival sermon the limits of science and problem of repressed reductive metaphysics what does Whitehead mean by a philosophy of organism the hot spring hypothesis for the origin of life what is in the concept 'world-soul' how does Whitehead help one think of life after physical death how Whitehead came to affirm God Matt shares the story of his own wrestling with Christianity and his reflection on the future of the faith... 'a non-denominational non-institutionalized Christian' what do we make about the power and problems that come with a religious tradition Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello theology nerds.
0:12.8	This is Tripp.
0:14.8	And you're listening to Homebrewed Christianity, where since the year of 2008, we've been bringing you audiological goodness.
0:22.1	That would be podcast interviews with some of the greatest scholars around.
0:26.9	Theologians, philosophers, scholars of religion, biblical studies, science.
0:30.6	Who knows what you're going to get, but they are indeed super nerds?
0:34.6	And today is not an exception.
0:37.4	Because Matt Siegel is on the podcast. That's right. The Man Behind the Footnotes to Plato blog.
0:43.9	YouTube extraordinaire assistant professor the California Institute of Integral Studies, a processed philosopher and author of the brand new book, Physics of the World's Soul, Alfred North Whitehead's
0:55.4	Adventure in Cosmology. He's right here, and we have ourselves a good, good, good old
1:00.9	process party. We have ourselves some cosmological reflections, and we have a bunch of fun.
1:08.3	By the end, by the end, oh, I'm not going to ruin it because you're
1:11.9	about to listen to it. But anyway, Matt's on the podcast. This is a fun one. I hope you're
1:17.7	going to enjoy it. And I'm confident you will. I'm confident. I'm confident. Now, you definitely
1:24.8	want to check out his books, Physics of the World's Soul. If you hear this and as YouTube, check out its website, footnotes to Plato.com.
1:32.1	But before we jump in, I just want to remind everyone right now, we are in the middle of an exciting online class with Brian McClare and Diana Butler Bass called, oh god, what now?
1:43.3	Dot net. Christianity 20 years after 9-11.
1:47.4	It is an open online class. All you got to do is sign up. You can donate anything between
1:52.2	zero and a million dollars. And yeah, yeah, maybe we started it already, but it's still going.
1:57.2	And you have access if you join to the video and audio of the previous sessions
2:01.4	and you have access to them afterwards. In fact, we got, there's like already 20 or so
2:07.2	groups of people using them. So you should check it out and then maybe you want to use it
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