Beyond Dichotomy.
Welcome to Love & Philosophy, a project connecting head and heart.
We’re highlighting the patterns that connect across disciplines, holding what might seem irreconcilable. Sometimes it gets technical. Sometimes it gets intimate. Some of it will flood you with warmth; some of it will make you wonder. We appreciate your participation, patience and support as we search out the sweet spot of resonance and discomfort. Holding paradox is a practice we embrace.
Way-making is a term inspired by Taoism, and can be understood as the movement of the body as well as the movement of the mind: “Way-making blunts the sharp edges and untangles the knots; it softens the glare and brings things together on the same track.” (Ames and Hall, 2003 in Boulton, 2024). This project is about exploring seemingly contradictory ways by exploring the making. Your ideas and collaboration are welcome.
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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.

Sometimes a Map is also Its Territory with Mahault Albarracin
Sometimes a map is its own territory with Mahault Albarracin

Any Human Power: Thrutopias instead of Dystopias or Utopias
Thrutopia and Any Human Power with Manda Scott and Andrea Hiott

Can we model cognition?
And what are models anyway? On the mechanistic and dynamic

I Am Because We Are
I am Because We Are
The African philosophy of “ubuntu” offers a way of living that begins with the premise that “I am” only because “we are.” How does this relate to heritage?

Is anything objective?
Is anything Objective?
Philosophy of Mind, Biophilia, and Why A.I. is Not What You Think with Ines Hipolito and Andrea Hiott

Brain GPT and Rethinking Neuroscience with Brad Love of University College London
Brain GPT and Rethinking Neuroscience with Turing Fellow Brad Love

Memory and Navigation As it Happened with John Kubie
Neuroscience of Memory and Navigation with John Kubie

Human Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, and Evolution with Max Bennett
A Brief History of Intelligence with Max Bennett and Andrea Hiott

Asymmetrical Reconciliation with Iain McGilchrist
On Becoming with Iain McGilchrist and Andrea Hiott

The Spatial Web and Active Inference A.I. with Denise Holt
Spatial web and active inference A.I.

The Song of Life with Richard Watson
The song of life with Richard Watson and philosopher Andrea Hiott

Clarity, Nature, Robots with Mike Levin
Clarity, Nature, Robots with Mike Levin and Andrea Hiott

How do you want to be experienced? One Living System with Cari Taylor
How do you want to be experienced? with Cari Taylor

The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map: Research Converation Part 2 with Lynn Nadel
Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map

An Economic Love for Humanity with Paddy LeFlufy
An Economic Love for Humanity with Paddy LeFlufy
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