Hello, everybody, welcome back to psychedelics today. This is Joe Moore coming at you from

Breckin Ridge, Colorado. On this episode, we have Matt Siegel. Matt Siegel's been on the show before,

I believe. Matt Siegel, Ph.D., received his doctoral degree in 2016 from the Philosophy,

Cosmology, and Consciousness Program at CIIIS. His dissertation was titled,

here we go.

Cosmo Theanthropic imagination in the post-Cantian process philosophy of shelling and whitehead.

It grapples with the limits of knowledge,

limits to knowledge of reality imposed by Kant's transatlental form of philosophy and argues that Shelling and Whitehead's process-oriented approach shows the

way across the Kantian threshold to renewed experiential contact with reality. He teaches courses

on German idealism and process philosophy with the PCC program at CIS. And his website is

footnotes, the number two, plato.com. And what that comes from is that's a

quote from Whitehead, the safest generalization of the history of philosophy as it consists of a

series of footnotes to Plato. And it's, it's lovely to have Matt back on the show. He's

such an intelligent and, you know, really careful guy looking at this whole psychedelic scene and philosophy.

You know, how does philosophy relate to this whole psychedelic thing we've got going? So, you know, a lot of big discussions there to be had.

I really like Matt. I could spend time with him on a few

different occasions. And I think Matt might also do some other independent teaching elsewhere.

So check him out. Very active on Twitter. Similarly, footnotes to Plato to the number two.

And oh, here it is. The real quote, the safest general characterization of the European

philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato, Alfred North Whitehead.

Yeah. So obviously Matt's into Whitehead. We are too. We've been thinking about how to really

justify our interest in philosophy here. And I think there's a lot of angles, but, you know,

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