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Mind & Life Europe Podcast

Mind & Life Europe
Participatory Sense-Making
Ethics
Intersubjectivity
Cognitive Science
Buddhism
Francisco Varela
Phenomenology
Intersubjective Practices
Embodied Cognition
Mind & Life Europe
Epistemology
Collective Sense-Making
Agency
Philosophy
Autism
Psychoanalysis
Epistemophilia
Quantum Philosophy
Diversity
Philosophical Questions

A podcast by Mind & Life Europe, emphasising the importance of exploratory dialogue, radical candour, intersubjectivity, and listening as an epistemology. Inspired by the groundbreaking work of our co-founder, the Chilean neurobiologist and philosopher Francisco Varela, these conversations are one more way of exploring what has been the lodestar for our work at Mind & Life Europe: the continuity b... more

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What does enacting the world look like for organisms who are not thriving, but merely surviving? What happens when we don’t have access to the activities that are organism-defining? How to curate a life from the edge, when one is cast out of the rela... more

This conversation was a rich and potent gathering of creative minds, whose lives and work have long orbited practices of improvisation, co-creation, and participatory sense-making: cellist and mindfulness teacher Barbara Bogatin, atypical choreograph... more

“Transversal operations for the creation of ways of knowing emerge from the ground up. They are singular and speculative at once, emboldened by the creativity of the everyday. The mistake is to assume that what education needs is a model. What educat... more

With few conversations did I feel the stakes to be so high, so thorny and complex. For this conversation on “Computing Differently,” I sat down with Dr Luc Steels and Dr Takashi Ikegami, two of the world’s preeminent researchers in the fields of Arti... more

In no other conversation this season has the relationship between ontology and ethics felt more pressing and more pregnant. How we define a person, how we classify their suffering and needs, radically determines the different interventions we might c... more

Few conversations have been as illustrative as this one of the proximity between participatory sense-making as a theory and participatory sense-making as a veritable way of moving through the world. In this episode, we hear from Allison Leigh Holt, J... more

This episode features three remarkably engaged and engaging thinkers and collaborators. Dr Elena Cuffari, Dr Hanne De Jaegher, and Dr Ezequiel Di Paolo co-authored the magnum opus, Linguistic Bodies: The Continuity Between Life and Language in 2018, ... more

As an introduction to this new season of conversations, I sat down with Dr Hanne De Jaegher, who was the backbone of Semester 4 of our Core Enaction Programme. She is well known in the worlds of philosophy and cognitive science for her development - ... more

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Barbara Bogatin
Cellist and mindfulness teacher with experience in contemplative practices for musicians.
San Francisco Symphony
Episode: "Knowing-in-Connection: Improvisation as Praxis for Life and Art"
Scott Brewer
Associate professor and language teacher educator focused on language learning psychology.
Université Paris-Est, Créteil
Episode: "Knowing-in-Connection: Improvisation as Praxis for Life and Art"
Luc Petton
Artist-choreographer known for integrating dance and improvisation with elements of nature.
Episode: "Knowing-in-Connection: Improvisation as Praxis for Life and Art"
Letícia Renault
Psychologist and researcher focusing on participatory methodologies in mental health.
Episode: "Knowing-in-Connection: Improvisation as Praxis for Life and Art"
Joëlle Aden
Full professor in the Social Science and Humanities Department of Paris Est Créteil University, focused on interdisciplinary approaches in education.
Paris Est Créteil University
Episode: "Learning Laterally: Unsettling the Normative Gestures of Pedagogy"
Erin Manning
Professor and research chair in speculative pragmatism, art and pedagogy at Concordia University, engaged in philosophical approaches to education.
Concordia University
Episode: "Learning Laterally: Unsettling the Normative Gestures of Pedagogy"
Dr. Luc Steels
Professor Emeritus of Artificial Intelligence from the University of Brussels.
University of Brussels
Episode: "An Enactive AI? Computing and Sense-Making Beyond the Data-Driven Approach"
Dr. Takashi Ikegami
Professor in the Department of General Systems Sciences at the University of Tokyo.
University of Tokyo
Episode: "An Enactive AI? Computing and Sense-Making Beyond the Data-Driven Approach"
Dr. Rika Preiser
Associate professor focused on sustainability transitions and environmental philosophy
Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Episode: "Beyond Healing: New Narratives for Making Sense Together"

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Johanna Megan
Host and programs manager at Mind & Life Europe, focusing on interdisciplinary conversations that bridge various fields of inquiry.

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"An Enactive AI? Computing and Sense-Making Beyond the Data-Driven Approach"
Q: What are the dangers of predictive models?
Both experts express caution over LLM biases and highlight that these models can propagate harmful norms and biases, reflecting the complexities involved in their designs. Luc compares the implications to historical concerns around pesticides affecting ecological systems.
"An Enactive AI? Computing and Sense-Making Beyond the Data-Driven Approach"
Q: How would each of you define AI within your own work?
Takashi Ikegami emphasizes that AI does not inherently represent life but is focused on optimization and efficiency, reflecting a narrow definition. Luc Steels argues AI should be viewed in a broader context, interlinking with themes of artificial life to explore intelligence and creativity.
"Beyond Healing: New Narratives for Making Sense Together"
Q: How do you negotiate unknowability while staying fully in the healing situation?
It involves learning to understand the unknowability in yourself and the other.
“Enactive Ethics: Difference Becoming Participation”
Q: What is participatory sense-making and what motivated each of you to adopt this framework?
Each speaker shared their journey of dissatisfaction with classical epistemologies in cognitive science, highlighting the importance of embodied experiences, interactions, and how they shaped their understanding and teaching practices.
“Phenomenology in the Making”
Q: Could you say a couple of words about your two most recent books?
The two books touch on quantum physics and Buddhism, exploring their interconnected frameworks of thought without conflating the two.

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The content emphasizes exploratory dialogue, radical candor, and intersubjectivity, focusing on the connections between mind and life. Frequently featuring conversations among diverse guests from various domains such as art, science, education, and psychology, discussions often explore themes like creativity, improvisation, healing, and radical pedagogical practices. Noteworthy is the podcast's commitment to fostering an open and inclusive environment where interdisciplinary perspectives converge, aiming to challenge conventional boundaries and promote ethical engagement among participants. This unique blend of topics and participants positions the podcast as a significant resource for those interested in the interplay of personal experienc... more

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