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Exclusive: Neal Stephenson Does Some Hardcore Phenomenology Geeking [Neal Stephenson]

SF Diplomat found this 8/28/2008 on io9.com

We've got an exclusive clip of Neal Stephenson doing what he does best: Seriously geeking out about obscure early-twentieth century metaphysics. Specifically, he admits that he has a little fetish for Edmund Husserl , a theorist coined the term "phenomenology" in his effort to reconcile the hard truths of scientific knowledge with the ambiguities of human consciousness. Stephenson's interest ...