Matthew D. Segall

David Abram and Matt Segall on Animism, Panpsychism, and the More than Human World

Abram and process philosopher Matt Segall compare two ways of describing a living world: animism, rooted in the felt experience of a landscape that gazes back, and panpsychism, the metaphysical claim that experience goes all the way down. Along the way they circle the questions this site keeps returning to — whether mind requires a body, what language does to perception, and how a culture of screens might recover its senses.

Alfred North Whitehead: His Life and Work

Matthew D. Segall traces Whitehead's life from mathematician to process philosopher, surveying the arc of his thought

Hidden Consciousness & The Living Patterns That Shape Reality | Michael Levin & Matt Segall

A long-form dialogue (THIRD EYE DROPS, Mind Meld 424) between developmental biologist Michael Levin and process philosopher Matt Segall on hidden minds, the patterns that organize living form, and where cognition comes from.

Emergence-emanation, Whitehead, Kastrup: a dialectic ontology w/ Matt Segall - Voices with Vervaeke

Segall and Vervaeke work the axis between emanation and emergence: does reality descend from the One, as Plotinus taught, or climb from below, as Whitehead's process philosophy suggests — and can a dialectical ontology hold both? A follow-up to their Whitehead dialogue, set between Vervaeke's conversations with Bernardo Kastrup.

Is The Universe Conscious? | Matt Segall