Brendan Graham Dempsey | Metamodern Spirituality | 'Prehension': Is Experience Fundamental? (w/ Matt Segall) @BrendanGrahamDempsey | Uploaded December 2023 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
Whitehead scholar and process thinker Matt Segall joins me to deepen our conversation about responses to the meaning crisis as it relates to reconnecting cosmos, consciousness, and value. In this discussion, we dive into the topic of "prehension," an idea from Whitehead that posits an experiential component to all phenomena in the universe.

0:00 Introduction
5:08 Prehension: Not Interior, but the Interior/Exterior Bridge
12:06 Prehension and Panpsychism
16:27 Identifying Basal Experience: Subjectivity and Time
25:52 Experience and Complexity
33:40 Attempting to Describe Fundamental Experience
47:06 Is Time Subjective?
54:36 Metaphysics and Novelty: Evolving Laws?
1:00:16 The Spectrum of Consciousness
1:04:22 Whitehead vs. Anthroposophy?
1:10:28 Philosophy's Role in a Scientific Age
1:21:43 Next Steps

For more of Matt's ideas on this topic, check out his essay "The Varieties of Physicalist Ontology: A Study in Whitehead’s Process-Relational Alternative":
matthewsegall.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/segall_ptsc_7_1_105-131.pdf?