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Complexity fatigued? Try some participatory sense-making!

To throw a wrench in things as we close out a year long seminar on attention. I’m making folks read:

Maria Heim, Buddhaghosa on the phenomenology of love and compassion.

Hanne de Jaegher, Loving and knowing: reflections for an engaged epistemology

Following public false claims on autism causation and attacks on science, INSAR has released a statement that people are “born with autism”
www.autism-insar.org/page/insarst.... Autism as innate and lifelong is the focus my new free paper (long thread incoming): www.frontiersin.org/journals/int...

Why attention matters for morality | Elisa Magrì Discover how concepts like attention can offer a deeper understanding of morality, going beyond the commonly discussed notions of principles, well-being, and virtue. Elisa Magrì's exploration of the…

“The practice of attention is a discipline of the mind that is infused with desire,” argues Elisa Magri. | iai.tv/articles/why...

Tap the link to read more about how we can chart an ethical framework that reshapes our mental landscape and provide us with meaning.

#socsky #psychsky #ethics

Information and data will never deliver creativity | Hanne De Jaegher

Many claim AI cannot be truly creative in the way human artists are because they lack human emotion and originality. | iai.tv/articles/inf...

But Hanne De Jaegher, argues the issue is deeper still: AI is not alive. It has no will to live and to ensure its survival.

#philtech #AI #techsky

"The nearness humans and other animals experience and look out for is complex. It is variegated, unpredictable, often ambiguous, sometimes contradictory, paradoxical, surprising. None of these things you will find in an AI model."

Information and data will never deliver creativity | Hanne De Jaegher

Information and data will never deliver creativity
— Life, information, and the search for meaning

New piece over at @iai.tv

In which I quote Colwyn Trevarthen and David Bowie.

iai.tv/articles/inf...

"Beyond Healing: New Narratives for Making Sense Together" | Mind & Life Europe Podcast Amy Cohen Varela, Dr Rika Preiser, and Dr Sanneke De Haan

More on participatory sense-making and healing:

shows.acast.com/661439abee41...

What is Participatory Sensemaking and Why Should We Care? Tracing its Roots in Systems Thinking, Neurodivergence, and Marxist Theory

A fantastic read from @participha.bsky.social Ezequiel di Paolo and @beckety.bsky.social on participatory sensemaking open.substack.com/pub/becketto...

What is Participatory Sensemaking and Why Should We Care? Tracing its Roots in Systems Thinking, Neurodivergence, and Marxist Theory

What is Participatory Sensemaking and Why Should We Care?

Interview by Beck Todd @beckety.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/becketto...

This kind of intentionality demands interpretation and also brings about immediate effects in a dialogical system.... The point is that communication is minded insofar as it is the embodied practice of social subjects."

"We offer intentionality as mutually constituted by producer, audience, and situation. The purposes an actor has in acting emerge with self-other roles and utterance behavior, out of self-organizing social interaction dynamics. ...

Intentions in interactions: an enactive reply to expressive communication proposals - Synthese The search for origins of human linguistic behavior is a consuming project in many fields. Philosophers drawing on studies of animal behavior are working to revise some of the standard cognitive requi...

"Intentions in interactions: an enactive reply to expressive communication proposals"
By Elena C. Cuffari & Nara M. Figueiredo

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Trauma-born Sensemaking and Living to Die An interview with Shay Welch

In this new substack post I interview philosopher and aerial dancer Shay Welch on the first-person experience of borderline personality disorder & using “living to die” as a strategy for managing existential boredom open.substack.com/pub/becketto...

.. and mutuality in interactions can empower children to learn to play to learn new skills and experience mastery as they explore and venture beyond what they already know.

..to experiment with the emerging opportunities and boundaries between therapy and play during treatment sessions. Respect for the child’s autonomy, attention to the child’s play experience, and repairs of interactional mismatches are crucial in this process. Therapeutic guidance..

Trusting play and letting play emerge through shared sense-making can resolve challenges and enable pediatric physical therapists to discover new therapeutic opportunities. A child’s striving and overcoming of resistance can be infused with playfulness and make play thrive. We invite PPTs..

Frontiers | Learning to play to learn in pediatric physical therapy

A nice one to start the year:

Learning to play to learn in pediatric physical therapy — Håkstad, Dusing, Girolami, De Jaegher

www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Community out of the Ashes An interview with Greg Watson

I just published a new substack post featuring visionary systems thinker & community organizer Greg Watson. Watson is a great story teller and his stories of communities self-organizing out of devastating conditions, dare I say it, kindle a of hope in dark times. open.substack.com/pub/becketto...

Linguistic relativity from an enactive perspective: the entanglement of language and cognition We seek to relate the fields of linguistic relativity (LR) and the enactive approach in cognitive science. We distinguish contemporary research on LR,…

Linguistic relativity from an enactive perspective: the entanglement of language and cognition

Ulises Rodríguez Jordá and Ezequiel Di Paolo in Language Sciences

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hi Dr Jay! I think Tony may also have gotten in touch with me, introducing the student to me? Feel free to write me an email, we can certainly talk in the new year.

This is a great question. Not something I can answer in a couple of skeets, but it would be great to have a conversation about it.

#BIPOC voices are often missing from autistic spaces, so here is a BIPOC starter pack! 😊

go.bsky.app/TtXfpAt

#racialequality #antiracism

The image of autism as “only white boys” leads to underdiagnosis, discrimination & isolation for many

Our autistic community is much more diverse than that! ❤️

Oh Helen, ik lees het nu pas. I am so sorry to hear this. Though good that the pain can be treated.

You are and will be a philosophical friend to so many, in all the depth that entails.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Iris Murdoch, Autism, and the Importance of Recognising Otherness - The Iris Murdoch Society While it may not be productive to diagnose a writer you have never met or communicated with, it is clear that Murdoch was aware of mental illness and mental difference as a psychological concept. Not ...

Iris Murdoch, Autism, and the Importance of Recognising Otherness
By Danika Brown

irismurdochsociety.org.uk/2024/04/29/a...

Abeba, wonderful and excellent news! Congratulations and bon courage for the work to come!!!

Brazilian philosophers starter pack!

I found this very moving.