Do you have a favorite? Not meant to, but mostly the unloved ones, the unvisited ones, the cases that get dusty and ignored.

All the broken and shunned creatures.

Someone's got to care for them.

Who shall it be if not us?

Yes. Welcome to Roon soup, a weekly podcast about magic, culture and the very best new and old ideas for living in this world, coming to you from 43 degrees south on a small farm in deepest Tasmania.

My name is Gordon and I shall be your host.

This week we welcome to the show Dr Matthew Siegel.

Matt is a philosopher and professor with a particular interest in the work of

Alfred North Whitehead and so he joins us today to talk about Platonism,

panpsychism, theories of mind and the natural world.

Enjoy.

All right, recording.

Dr Matthew T. Siegel, welcome aboard. It's great to be aboard, Gordon.

I am really honored by your invitation to speak today and look forward to picking each

other's brains, maybe playing each other's astral harps strings or, you know, whatever ways that we can

meet in the midst of the metaphysical and the mysterious.

I think it's gonna be fun.

No, absolutely.

And as people can probably tell,

if they're watching this in the video I'm traveling this is in the usual

office and in Airbnb one of the reasons we're doing video is it's kind of easier for me to

edit that which is somewhat ironic I guess as we as I move about the world going to family events and so on and it kind of occurred to me.

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