My drawn statement on Ai as standalone from my now finished minicomic as syllabus for new liberal studies class! As promised this is shareable, printable - all from my site, feel free to make use of it, cite me & let me know how it’s received. Share away all here! spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...

. @olivia.science and I had the honour to speak with Kent Anderson and Joy Moore on @disruptedscience.bsky.social 🧪 💫 🎬 🍿 Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9w0... 🎶👂 Podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/082h... 1/🧵

🎙the Core of Loving & Knowing with @participha.bsky.social Philosopher Hanne De Jaegher discusses life experiences and how they led to her academic journey in cognitive science and the scholarship behind ‘participatory sense-making’ #psm #phil #embodied #sensemaking #varela #loveandphilosophy

Moving is Meeting: Inner Dramaturgies and the City With choreographer Claire French/Restless Productions and philosopher Dr. Hanne De Jaegher. At The Dance Centre Vancouver Open House this weekend. @thedancecentre.bsky.social Join us if you're there! thedancecentre.ca/event/scotia...

In this short piece, I lean on embodied cog sci to argue that we should refuse & resist llms in education (pp. 53-58) unesdoc.unesco.org/in/documentV... "the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care & humility are fostered & mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions"

It is vital that we don't overestimate our understanding of human cognition. Yes, there is reason to believe we have a better grasp of some things than when AI hype first appeared in the 1950s, but that better understanding is not clear, and almost certainly isn't on the basis of simple computation

Why higher ed teaching is hard, and always will be. But we don't do it because it is easy, and we are trusted to do it well because we have hard earned expertise in our fields. Let's not undervalue that, hey?

This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”

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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...

“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

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

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...

More on participatory sense-making and healing: shows.acast.com/661439abee41...

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? Interview by Beck Todd @beckety.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/becketto...

"Intentions in interactions: an enactive reply to expressive communication proposals" By Elena C. Cuffari & Nara M. Figueiredo link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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...

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...

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 Ulises Rodríguez Jordá and Ezequiel Di Paolo in Language Sciences www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#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! ❤️

Iris Murdoch, Autism, and the Importance of Recognising Otherness By Danika Brown irismurdochsociety.org.uk/2024/04/29/a...

Brazilian philosophers starter pack!

I found this very moving.

New substack post. I interview entrepreneur & special effects producer Philipp Wolf on his strengths-based approach to neurdivergence, his midlife autism diagnosis, and swyvl, his company designing XR to share the experience of neurodivergent nervous systems: open.substack.com/pub/becketto...

New study analyzing interpersonal coordination in dance improv by Paige Whitehead @participha.bsky.social @beckety.bsky.social Ivana Santana & Stefanie-Blain-Moraes www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Here’s the beginnings of a starter pack of philosophers who work on topics in love, intimacy, and relationships. go.bsky.app/AjUr2VS please let me know who else to add!

Angel flight booked! (Angelflights is a volunteer organisation that flies patients who live far from treatment centres out to medical appointments). A little perk of cancer! I'm so grateful. Hope it will be sunny those days, as the Kootenay regions are beauty to behold.

Lots of colleagues would greatly appreciate this book. But don't get it yet. A new version is coming out with annotations by Evan Thompson and Ezequiel Di Paolo. I've known for a long time that Varela was amazing, but wow! mitpress.mit.edu/978026255140...

Did you all know that Margaret Boden founded the first School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences in 1987. No? Well, now you do 😌 Btw, listen to this great talk by her. I'll be adding this to the resources from our 1st year students in Intro to AI. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPRA...

It is my conviction that people who understand, at a fundamental level, what computers can and cannot do, are less susceptible to AI hype.

Nu. Het is nu. Je suis nue. Great art helps. (I have no further comments for now.) (I don't want to not share. I don't want to share. I want all of us, our vulnerabilities, to be able to just be. I want us to be able to care for each other, mightily.) youtu.be/8aJw4chksqM?...

🧵 This is hugely important work from Haaretz, Israel's paper of record. "Residents, military officials and journalists describe scenes of vast devastation. 'It's like after an atomic bomb,' one of them reported in Haaretz after visiting northern Gaza."

In clinical trials of new treatments, when the treatment is clearly and obviously immediately effective it is sometimes considered unethical to continue to withhold it from the control group. Pretty sure we passed that milestone about a decade ago with basic income experiments.

Based on my feed this morning, it seems that the two most successful things ever discovered are UBI and gender-affirming care. Both shown to be nearly 100% reliable in test after test and survey after survey.

Biggest ever survey of trans Americans finds 94% happier after transition

Wonderstruck will soon be out. There will be a few upcoming events (podcasts, interviews etc), I'm excited! Inevitably I feel a bit worried for the book coming into the world like that, especially since it's my first trade book, but how readers will receive it is now up to them.

I wrote a new substack post on connecting with spared implicit understanding in people with dementia through nonverbal means. I talk about the perspective of philosopher/psychiatrist Thomas Fuch & interview social worker extraordinaire Elaine Book. open.substack.com/pub/becketto...

Yay! Real life investigations into participatory sense-making getting out there. I look forward a lot to reading more from your newsletter, @beckety.bsky.social!

(more can be done to connect communities of scholars here, so here's a shot in the dark/try at this) If you are a scholar, please reply with *one* link to a paper you (co)authored that is close to your heart (not necessarily most prestigious or most cited one) say something about it & RT this post.

First post: a paper on Tourette’s, in which we argue that being open to the first person experiences allows to break open the stalemate of the purely pathological view. And, that it puts the environment in focus of creating some Tourettic problems. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.....