Beyond Dichotomy.
Sharing research, writing, and conversations with scientists, seekers, and fellow philosophers. Finding ways to move beyond polarities while still respecting them. Looking for the patterns that connect. Holding the paradox.
Writings at Way & Lifeworld and the Love & Philosophy Substack.
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Why we are all talking about ‘affordances’ with Harry Heft
Why are we all talking about affordances? Who was JJ Gibson and what did he have to do with William James? A look into ecological psychology with Harry Heft.
Academic Dissonance and Unexpected Paths
Academia, living in an RV, starting a neuroscience podcast and issues of computation and representation
All Those Yesterdays
All those yesterdays: the oscillating self with John Koethe
Paths and Power of Paradox
Paths of Power and Paradox with Minna Salami
The Real World and its Many Models with Michela Massimi
Real World and its Many Models with Michela Massimi
Life after Life with philosopher Alva Noë
The Entanglement with Alva Noë
Bernardo Kastrup is an Apple Blossom
What is consciousness?
Embracing Everyday Battles
Embracing Everyday Battles: The Power of Design in Life
Hidden Spring
The Hidden Spring and Consciousness as Feeling with psychoanalyst and neuropsychologist Marc Solms
Synchrony between mind and nature
Fractals of nature in the brain body and world. A new spatiotemporal approach to neuroscience and philosophy.
Planta Sapiens with Paco Calvo
Are plants sentient? Are they intelligent?
Consciousness and Cognition with Cognitive Scientist Fred Cummins
Starting with Fred's unique scholarship and teaching, his nursing background, and his early studies with Douglas Hofstadter, Andrea Hiott & Fred Cummins lay the groundwork for an in-depth discussion on the history and interdisciplinary nature of cognitive science.
Power in Polarity?
The difference between dichotomy and polarity and why holding the paradox might also mean going deeper into polarity.
More than Fame
A young man has just graduated from college and is looking for real meaning and purpose in his life. He's also just found love and gotten married.
Christopher Alexander, Pattern Language, and Place Release
Christopher Alexander, Pattern Language and Place with David Seamon and Andrea Hiott
Adaptive Resilience with Maria Santacaterina
Adaptive Resiliency for Humans and A.I. with Maria Santacaterina and Andrea Hiott
Disrupting Expectations with Skye Cleary
Disrupted Expectations: Existential Life and Love through the eyes of Simone de Beauvoir and Skye Cleary and Andrea Hiott
How the World Thinks with Julian Baggini
Moving beyond Western Philosophy with bestselling philosopher Julian Baggini and Andrea Hiott
Being yourself to save yourself with Darryl Pinckney
New York City in the 1970s and what it means to be avant-garde with Darryl Pinckney and Andrea Hiott.
Taking Category Theory to Heart with Brandon Baylor
The personal side of mathematics and how it applies to relational life with Brandon Boyd and Andrea Hiott.
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