EPISODE · Dec 10, 2019 · 1H 6M
Axel Seemann and Shared Experiences
from Experience by Design · host Gary David
Professor of Philosophy Axel Seemann has long been interested in how people create a common understanding of social spaces and experiences. In his recent book, The Shared World, Axel explores these topics, arguing that it is our ability to communicate about our experiences that gives us the ability to share them since on their own they will always be unique. This raises questions regarding how we conceptualize and measure experiences, how we boundary them as discrete entities, and how we go about intentionally designing them. From thinking about bat-consciousness to his work as a management consultant, Axel has contemplated a lot of factors related to experiences, and we explore many of them in this episode.This episode sponsored by ethno-analytics.
What this episode covers
Is it possible to have a shared experience? And how do we conceptualize 'experiences' in the first place? Professor of Philosophy (and former management consultant) Axel Seemann joins us to discuss these topics, and how does a bat know it is a bat.
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