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Desirable Unknown

In our shared future, there are potentials we know are possible, but there are also unknowns, potentials we have not yet considered. The distinction between the knowable and the unknowable is at the heart of philosophy. In Chinese philosophy, for the Taoist, the universe is fundamentally unknowable and yet, holding the paradox, we can come to know it better and glimpse the Way in experiences Japanese traditions call satori. In more European oriented philosophy, Socrates is famous for the idea that 'all we can know is that we do not know' though his life is itself a way through the unknown. The reason this paradox matters and is at the heart of our search for meaning, is because within the parameter of the unknown, there are unknowns which are desirable and those which are not. Here we find way towards discussing what might be the desirable unknowns for our living planet, and in so doing, ride the paradox of trying to know what is unknowable, or what is only knowable if it occurs.

Way and Lifeworld

Way & Lifeworld Substack which explores way-making and philosophical texts.

Way & Lifeworld is a space for exploring, creating, recommending, criticising & improving a philosophy I’ve been developing (the way-making framework). Here I respond to and welcome advice and (well-meaning) criticism from others as I try to relate philosophical ideas across walks of life and disciplines. This is a place to explore whether the way-making approach can be helpful, to champion the many people who have inspired it and its ideas, and to clarify how it relates to other areas of inquiry and scholarship, as there is nothing new under the sun.

This comes in a spirit of community; the point is to grow philosophy together. Everywhere we look now there are captions telling us they have the answers. Instead of pretending there is one answer here, I am hoping we can find the answers together and let those answers grow and live and change as living systems. My goal is to listen and learn, to study and notice the patterns as best I can, and to communicate, create, and share in service to love, health, critical thinking and sensual presence. As a community of discussion, we can build better ways together, expand our senses, experience joint presence, and discover a new ecological space towards helping one another with our individual and community challenges.

What really matters in this life? How do meaningful philosophical and scientific pursuits change how we experience the world? How do the ways we frame our experience (whether consciously or not) become the ways we make in it, or the ways that make future generations?

The first writings will sketch the philosophy of way-making, a work in progress, and the sketches are meant to ask for your participation in showing me what I might have missed or what I can improve or how it would be more relevant to your own work and life. Thank you for being here, and I look forward to your perspective!

Ecological Motoring Initiative

The Ecological Motoring Intiative Substack and its related podcast, Forever Motoring, whereby we rethink what is meant by both ‘forever’ and ‘motoring’. It is also related to academic work we do regarding cities and mobility.

EMI works to initiative conversations, connections, and collaborations towards finding ways to meet the motoring needs of all within the means of the living planet (🍩). Vehicles change everything from our cities to our mindsets, but we rarely connect the dots between. Movement is sensual and ecological and we need new forms of motoring for a new earth

EMI (the ecological motoring initiative) looks at how we might transcend traditional dichotomies around machines and ecologies and bring people together around common needs towards a new notion of motoring.

We are moved at so many levels and through so many different landscapes, be those physical, emotional, mental or virtual. From city designers to coders to car manufacturers, we can work together to create a better vision for motoring.

Our minds have been channeled in part by the ways we motor--the ways we move ourselves, our materials, and our ideas. Ecological transportation begins with understanding that the vehicles and infrastructures moving us are also creating cognitive systems.

A 'motor' powers any vehicle that moves us, and our vehicles come at different scales. Whether it is in a bike, a car, computing equipment, or a piece of music, the motor is the part of that vehicle that moves us consistently and structures the ways and means of our movement.

We believe part of the work to be done is in noticing and better understanding the current cognitive systems being created by our forms of motoring, observing the ways they structure our daily lives and activities, and moving into the desirable unknown with a new vision of what motoring can be, including its means and materials.

How can we meet the motoring needs of all in a way that is ecological? What does it mean to move within the means of the living planet? How can we move in ways that inspire and motivate us and increase our potentials longterm?

Links to projects and collaborations

Personal website for Andrea Hiott

Andrea on LinkedIn

Website for Love & Philosophy

Website for Ecological Orientation

Website for the Ecological Motoring Initiative

Holon Labs

Active Inference Institute, Sign up for Substack

Universität Heidelberg

Georg Northoff Lab

Brandenburg Institute of Technology

Website for podcast Forever Motoring

Love & Philosophy on Spotify

Love & Philosophy on Apple

A list of links to L & P for many other podcast platforms

Desirable Unknown podcast and You Tube

Hippocampal Love podcast and You Tube

Love and Philosophy

You Tube Channel: Love & Philosophy, Beyond Dichotomy

Substack: Love & Philosophy Beyond Dichotomy, the Substack.

Conversations in love and philosophy. Beyond Dichotomy. Sensation. Invitation. Exploration. Way-making. Research in science, art and philosophy towards understanding how our approach to life and cognition might address some of the urgent divides we face. Moving beyond traditional demarcations for learning and development. By love and philosophy, I mean the people, passions, and ideas that move us, shape the trajectories of our lives, and co-create our wider social landscapes. Partly due to my trajectory in philosophy, technology, & the cognitive sciences, I’m hoping to better observe binary distinctions in our academic & personal lives: What positive roles have these structures played? How might rethinking these structures & their parameters open new paths & ecological potentials?

Instructions for those wanting to join the new interactive areas or be part of forming the vCommune forum:

From You Tube, click the Join button and become part of the community grown philosophy group beginning later this year by choosing the Lucid Hive option. (other options: Oceans Flow for those who want to support these endeavers (very much appreciated and needed) but do not want to be part of creating the group and forum. Or, on the other end of the spectrum, for those who want to be as involved as possible and have ideas and content that you want to see shared on the Love & Philosophy channel, you can choose the Honey Honeycomb option, whereby you receive all of the above and also become part of postings on the channel.

Hippocampus Love

I am writing a book that has a lot to do with research relative to philosophy and neuroscience, and especially to the hippocampus, an area of the brain associated with memory, navigation, and knowledge building. This book traces a shift that has been happening in science and philosophy towards a different approach to self, body, mind, and world, an ecological orientation which moves beyond the traditional dichotomous thinking of American and European science and philosophy as concieved for most of its existence. Hippocampus Love is the hippocampal part of that research, or at least some of it, and includes writings and conversations in this regard with scientists who have created and are creating the field.

Hippocampus Love Substack and Playlist, a subsection of L&P and its own podcast.