Beyond Dichotomy.
Welcome to Love & Philosophy, where love is the answer, philosophy is the practice, and paradox is our embrace.
We’re highlighting the patterns that connect across disciplines, holding what might seem irreconcilable, all the while focusing on how our approach to life and mind might address the urgent divides we face.
We think of it as way-making. 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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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.
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.
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