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It's reasonable to care. Exploring philosophical, scientific, technological & poetic spaces beyond either/or bounds. From the heart. Deeply researched. Mostly unscripted.
Hosted by philosopher and cognitive scientist Andrea Hiott. A project with Making Ways. Buy the book Holding Paradox: The Navigational Approach to Mind and Consciousness. And join the Substack.
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#86 A.A. Kostas and his WayMarkers (including Chris McCandless, C.S. Lewis, Robert Pirsig, Thomas Merton, D.T. Suzuki, & Christian mystics)
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May 07, 2026 |
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#85 Punk, Tech & Care: B. Scot Rousse on Being Human in the Age AI (Dreyfus, Flores, Heidegger, Kierkegaard)
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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#84 There is No Average Individual: The Great Psychology Delusion with Marek McGann
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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BONUS Performance of your life: Is acting inherent to being human? Sophie Fiennes, Declan Donnellan, Nick Ormerod, Macbeth
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Apr 10, 2026 |
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#83 Wisdom Gates and Serious Play: Paradox, Care and Discovery with Puzzle-Maker Jasen Robillard
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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#82 Philosophy of the Heart with Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Scilla Elworthy
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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#81 Changing Minds, Metaphysics, and a Life in Analytic Philosophy with Janet Levin of USC
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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Focusing on Care: Field Notes from Love and Philosophy
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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Curiosity as a Practice and the Capacity to Connect with philosopher Perry Zurn (from the archive)
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Mar 07, 2026 |
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Love, Life and Logic: Another Dialectic with Hegelian scholar Karen Ng (from the archive)
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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What Relates Creates with life & computer scientist Richard Watson (from the archive)
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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Trust, Games and Sculpting Agency with C. Thi Nguyen (new edit from the archive)
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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#80 Pure Consciousness with Thomas Metzinger
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Jan 01, 2026 |
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#79 Loving to Know and Subsidiary Focal Integration with Esther Lightcap Meek
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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Hippocampus Love: Action at a Distance and the bridge of Memory, Part 4 with Lynn Nadel BONUS
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Dec 14, 2025 |
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#78 Holding Love & Power (Without Losing Either) with policy advisor Jamie Bristow
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Dec 07, 2025 |
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#77 Evolving Language by Embracing Paradox with Lisa Maroski
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Nov 30, 2025 |
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#76 The Care of Things: Philosophy of Maintenance & Making Things Last with Jérome Denis and David Pontille
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Nov 23, 2025 |
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#75 Hyperscanning & Human Connection: Synchronization and the Third Brain with Biologist Nicolás Hinrichs
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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Moving Beyond Binaries in Education: Andrea Hiott in Conversation with Tim Logan on Future Learning Design
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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#74 the Dynamics of Holding and Sharing: Authenticity, Maps, Masks & Voicecraft with Tim Adalin
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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Hippocampus Love: The Neural Representation Debate & Cognitive Maps with Lynn Nadel (BONUS EPISODE)
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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#73 Life Together on the Möbius Strip with author, educator and activist Parker Palmer
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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#72 Rethinking Cognition: Posthumanism to Planetary Ecology with Professor Katherine Hayles
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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#71 Dialectics, Democracy & the Phenomenology of Double Consciousness with Lucius Outlaw Jr.
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Sep 14, 2025 |
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#70 Fractal Rubik's Cube & the Big Machine with futurist polymath Michael Garfield
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Sep 07, 2025 |
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#69 The philosophy of Bioregionalism with Félix de Rosen
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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#68: Loving, Knowing and Participatory Sense-making with philosopher Hanne De Jaegher
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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Summer of 2024: Synapses of Life with Shoma Chaudhury
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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#67: Autonomy, Autopoiesis & the Enactive Approach with philosopher Ezequiel Di Paolo (Mirko Prokop)
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Aug 02, 2025 |
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#66 Harmonizing the Dao with analytic philosopher Eric Schwitzgebel
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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#65 Play & Meaningful Uncertainty: Active Inference and the Intellectual Sweet Spot with Julian Kiverstein of Amsterdam UMC
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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#64: Complimentary Science & the Lure of Convenience with philosopher of technology Sabina Leonelli (Fotis Tsiroukis)
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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#63 Shaping Habits Together: life's changes and challenges with cognitive scientist Mark Michael James
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Jun 29, 2025 |
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Kaleidoscopic Cognition: Beyond Dichotomy
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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#62: Living Philosophically and Thinking Wild with professor of technology Jessica Böhme
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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#61: Burning to Give Light: the delicate balance of illness and insight with former Wall Streeter Tom Morgan
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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#60: The Dao of Complexity with theoretical physicist Jean Boulton
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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#59: Complexity Coding, Residuality Theory & the Hyperliminal: being flexible and rigid at once with architect Barry O'Reilly
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May 18, 2025 |
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#58: Hill Making & Lessons for Living with WIRED co-founder Kevin Kelly
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May 06, 2025 |
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#57: Complexity Fatigue & the Third Entity with philosophers and neuroscientists Beck Todd, Shay Welch and Penijean Gracefire
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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BONUS: A Quick Podcast about Podcast(s) with Andrea & Fotis
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Apr 19, 2025 |
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#56: Radical Incompleteness & Windows of Ritournelle with poet philosopher Bayo Akomolafe
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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#55: How Shall we Live? with anthropologist and lineologist Tim Ingold
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Mar 30, 2025 |
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#54: Project Love: What We Make & How it Makes Us with service designer Clive Grinyer
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Mar 22, 2025 |
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#53: Another Needful Freedom: Truth in Tension with Mike Brock, ex-tech-exec, reluctant Cassandra
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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#52: We Are Not Machines! Agency & Science beyond Computationalism with Fotis and Yogi (Johannes Jaeger)
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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#51: Body Knowledge with philosophers Shay Welch and Elena Cuffari
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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#50: Love and Liberation in Times of Crisis with philosopher Rupert Read (and Wittgenstein)
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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#49: Empowerment in Robotics: Solo Brainstorm & AI Bonus Conversation with Dari Trendafilov
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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#48: In Defense of the Human Being with Thomas Fuchs
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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#47: Love Beyond Subject and Object with therapist & neuroscientist Mark Solms
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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#46: Rhythms of Nature & Love: Hegel's Concept of Life with philosopher Karen Ng
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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#45: Living Beyond the Blind Spot with Philosopher Evan Thompson
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Jan 01, 2025 |
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#44: The Flow of Life: An Unusual Winter Walk with Karl Friston and his Free Energy Principle
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Dec 25, 2024 |
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#43: Environment is Not in the Head: Why everyone's talking about Affordances with Harry Heft
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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#42: Academic dissonance, unexpected paths & process with neuroscientist and Brain Inspired Paul Middlebrooks
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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#41: Paths of Power and Paradox with Minna Salami, author of Sensuous Knowledge
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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#40: All Those Yesterdays: a lifelong conversation with poet-philosopher John Koethe
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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#39: The Real World and its Many Models with philosopher Michela Massimi
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Holding Paradox: Beyond Dichotomies
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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#38: What is Consciousness and Where Can We Find It? with philosopher & computer scientist Bernardo Kastrup
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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#37: Our Entanglement: Striving with problems (in a good way) with philosopher Alva Noë
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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#36: Feeling into the Source of Self with neuropsychologist Mark Solms
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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#35: Embracing Everyday Battles: Design as Philosophy with Sheng-Hung Lee
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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#34: Heideggerian Robots of Phenomenology and Cognitive Science with Michael Wheeler and Mirko Prokop
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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#33: Synchronizing Mind, Nature, and Neuroscience: Spacetime Experimentation with Georg Northoff
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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#32: The Minds of Plants with Paco Calvo: Are plants intelligent?
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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#31: Power in Polarity? Rethinking opposition in design and life with Alastair Duckworth
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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#30: Swimming Against the Fame Stream: the Power in Taking Life Slowly and with Purpose, Lucas Vos
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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#29: Pattern Language, Wholeness and Place-synergy: discussing Christopher Alexander with geographer David Seamon
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Sep 08, 2024 |
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#28: Remembering Human Resilience in the age of A.I. with Maria Santacaterina
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Aug 25, 2024 |
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#27: Disrupting Expectations: Existential Life and Love with philosopher Skye Cleary
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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#26: Saving Yourself by Being Yourself with the legendary Darryl Pinckney
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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#25: How the World Thinks with Julian Baggini: Moving beyond Western philosophy
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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#24: Taking Category Theory to Heart: The Personal Side of Mathematics with Brandon Baylor
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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#23: Any Human Power: Thinking Thrutopia instead of Dystopia with Manda Scott
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Jul 14, 2024 |
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#22: Maps are Their Own Territory with Mahault Albarracin
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Jul 13, 2024 |
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PhD Talks: Thinking Through Life: New approaches to sustainable heritage with Jonathan Doe
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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#21: Knowing and the Known: Consciousness, Cognition and Joint Speech with Fred Cummins
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Jul 07, 2024 |
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PhD Talks: Can we model cognition? And what is a model anyway? with Paul Kelly
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Jun 30, 2024 |
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#20: What is Intelligence? Brains, Evolution, and A.I. with Max Bennett
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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#19: Is anything objective? Philosophy of mind, Biophilia, and why A.I. is not what we think with Inês Hipólito
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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#18: BrainGPT, Neuroscience & Loving the Ants in Ourselves with Brad Love
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May 30, 2024 |
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#17: How Not to Waste a Life: Asymmetrical Reconciliation with Iain McGilchrist
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May 05, 2024 |
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BONUS: Intention and Elizabeth Anscombe with Mirko Prokop
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May 01, 2024 |
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#16: Higher Order Math and Love with Carlos Zapata Carratalá
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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PhD Talks: Scaling Autonomous Self-Actualization with Timo Schuler
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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#13: An Economic Love for Humanity with Paddy LeFlufy (with EMI)
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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#14: The Art of Conversation with Paul Holdengräber
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Mar 24, 2024 |
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#12: Among Superheroes: Memories, Maps & McGill with psychologist Lynn Nadel
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Mar 09, 2024 |
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#11: From Ants to Active Inference with Daniel Ari Friedman
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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#10: Pattern, Meaning and Integration with author Jeremy Lent
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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#9: Nature and Clarity with biologist Michael Levin
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Dec 24, 2023 |
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#8: What Can a Computer Be? with Flora Moon and Esteban Montero
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Dec 23, 2023 |
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#7: Mutual Transformative Change with Richard Watson
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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#6: Scales & Science Fiction with Michael Levin
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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#5: The Power of Focus with C. Thi Nguyen
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Oct 07, 2023 |
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#4: Crossing Bounds and Philosophy of Love Improv with Dr. Alex Moseley
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Sep 23, 2023 |
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#3: Internal & External Coherence with Lisa Fitzhugh
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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#2: Curious Minds & Edge-working with Perry Zurn
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Aug 31, 2023 |