Site • RSS • Apple PodcastsDescription (podcaster-provided):
It's reasonable to care. Exploring philosophical, scientific, technological & poetic spaces beyond either/or bounds. From the heart. Deeply researched. Mostly unscripted.Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ philosophy and cognitive science • love, care, heart-led ethics • consciousness, mind and embodiment • participatory sense-making, agency and trust • complexity, paradox and dialectics • AI, robotics and technology ethics • ecology, bioregionalism, politics, education • memory, navigation, brain synchronizationThis podcast explores how love, care, and ethical attention can be treated as serious philosophical and scientific topics rather than merely private feelings. Hosted by philosopher and cognitive scientist Andrea Hiott, the conversations move across analytic philosophy, cognitive science and neuroscience, technology and AI, ecology and sustainability, political life, education, design, and poetry. A recurring aim is to think beyond rigid either/or frameworks by using “paradox,” dialectics, and systems perspectives to understand how people and societies navigate complexity.
Across the episodes, guests include philosophers, scientists, policy advisors, designers, writers, and activists who examine how minds and relationships work and how agency is shaped by environments, habits, institutions, and tools. The show often focuses on embodied and relational approaches to cognition—how knowing and feeling are intertwined, how meaning emerges through interaction, and how memory, navigation, and social connection can be studied empirically. There is also sustained interest in the philosophical foundations of mind and consciousness, including debates about physicalism, representation, and “pure consciousness,” alongside applied questions about neurotechnology, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence.
Another thread is the politics and practice of care: conflict transformation, maintaining and repairing the material world, bringing contemplative practices into governance, and rethinking education and public discourse. Rather than treating big ideas as abstract, the podcast frequently connects theory to lived experience—trauma and healing, depression, uncertainty, and the everyday work of sustaining life together in a changing world.
| Episodes: |
Performance of your life: Is acting inherent to being human? Sophie Fiennes, Declan Donnellan, Nick Ormerod, Macbeth2026-Apr-10 28 minutes |
#83 Wisdom Gates: Paradox, Care and Discovery with Puzzle-Maker Jasen Robillard2026-Apr-07 81 minutes |
|
#82 Philosophy of the Heart with Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Scilla Elworthy 2026-Mar-27 56 minutes |
|
#81 Changing Minds, Metaphysics, and a Life in Analytic Philosophy with Janet Levin of USC 2026-Mar-18 123 minutes |
|
Focusing on Care: Field Notes from Love and Philosophy 2026-Mar-16 9 minutes |
|
Curiosity as a Practice and the Capacity to Connect with philosopher Perry Zurn (from the archive) 2026-Mar-07 58 minutes |
|
Love, Life and Logic: Another Dialectic with Hegelian scholar Karen Ng (from the archive) 2026-Feb-17 76 minutes |
|
What Relates Creates with life & computer scientist Richard Watson (from the archive) 2026-Feb-03 82 minutes |
|
Trust, Games and Sculpting Agency with C. Thi Nguyen (new edit from the archive) 2026-Jan-23 66 minutes |
|
#80 Pure Consciousness with Thomas Metzinger 2026-Jan-01 103 minutes |
|
#79 Loving to Know and Subsidiary Focal Integration with Esther Lightcap Meek 2025-Dec-23 95 minutes |
|
Hippocampus Love: Action at a Distance and the bridge of Memory, Part 4 with Lynn Nadel BONUS 2025-Dec-14 101 minutes |
|
#78 Holding Love & Power (Without Losing Either) with policy advisor Jamie Bristow 2025-Dec-07 89 minutes |
|
#77 Evolving Language by Embracing Paradox with Lisa Maroski 2025-Nov-30 64 minutes |
|
#76 The Care of Things: Philosophy of Maintenance & Making Things Last with Jérome Denis and David Pontille 2025-Nov-23 84 minutes |
|
#75 Hyperscanning & Human Connection: Synchronization and the Third Brain with Biologist Nicolás Hinrichs 2025-Nov-11 71 minutes |
|
Moving Beyond Binaries in Education: Andrea Hiott in Conversation with Tim Logan on Future Learning Design 2025-Oct-31 55 minutes |
|
#74 the Dynamics of Holding and Sharing: Authenticity, Maps, Masks & Voicecraft with Tim Adalin 2025-Oct-23 143 minutes |
|
Hippocampus Love: The Neural Representation Debate & Cognitive Maps with Lynn Nadel (BONUS EPISODE) 2025-Oct-14 60 minutes |
|
#73 Life Together on the Möbius Strip with author, educator and activist Parker Palmer 2025-Oct-03 80 minutes |
|
#72 Rethinking Cognition: Posthumanism to Planetary Ecology with Professor Katherine Hayles 2025-Sep-23 82 minutes |
|
#71 Dialectics, Democracy & the Phenomenology of Double Consciousness with Lucius Outlaw Jr. 2025-Sep-14 116 minutes |
|
#70 Fractal Rubik's Cube & the Big Machine with futurist polymath Michael Garfield 2025-Sep-07 111 minutes |
|
#69 The philosophy of Bioregionalism with Félix de Rosen 2025-Aug-25 63 minutes |
|
#68: Loving, Knowing and Participatory Sense-making with philosopher Hanne De Jaegher 2025-Aug-21 96 minutes |
|
Summer of 2024: Synapses of Life with Shoma Chaudhury 2025-Aug-12 90 minutes |
|
#67: Autonomy, Autopoiesis & the Enactive Approach with philosopher Ezequiel Di Paolo (Mirko Prokop) 2025-Aug-02 73 minutes |
|
#66 Harmonizing the Dao with analytic philosopher Eric Schwitzgebel 2025-Jul-24 84 minutes |
|
#65 Play & Meaningful Uncertainty: Active Inference and the Intellectual Sweet Spot with Julian Kiverstein of Amsterdam UMC 2025-Jul-16 83 minutes |
|
#64: Complimentary Science & the Lure of Convenience with philosopher of technology Sabina Leonelli (Fotis Tsiroukis) 2025-Jul-09 86 minutes |
|
#63 Shaping Habits Together: life's changes and challenges with cognitive scientist Mark Michael James 2025-Jun-29 110 minutes |
|
Kaleidoscopic Cognition: Beyond Dichotomy 2025-Jun-23 2 minutes |
|
#62: Living Philosophically and Thinking Wild with professor of technology Jessica Böhme 2025-Jun-19 69 minutes |
|
#61: Burning to Give Light: the delicate balance of illness and insight with former Wall Streeter Tom Morgan 2025-Jun-11 87 minutes |
|
#60: The Dao of Complexity with theoretical physicist Jean Boulton 2025-Jun-03 73 minutes |
|
#59: Complexity Coding, Residuality Theory & the Hyperliminal: being flexible and rigid at once with architect Barry O'Reilly 2025-May-18 83 minutes |
|
#58: Hill Making & Lessons for Living with WIRED co-founder Kevin Kelly 2025-May-06 63 minutes |
|
#57: Complexity Fatigue & the Third Entity with philosophers and neuroscientists Beck Todd, Shay Welch and Penijean Gracefire 2025-Apr-25 104 minutes |
|
BONUS: A Quick Podcast about Podcast(s) with Andrea & Fotis 2025-Apr-19 36 minutes |
|
#56: Radical Incompleteness & Windows of Ritournelle with poet philosopher Bayo Akomolafe 2025-Apr-10 40 minutes |
|
#55: How Shall we Live? with anthropologist and lineologist Tim Ingold 2025-Mar-30 100 minutes |
|
#54: Project Love: What We Make & How it Makes Us with service designer Clive Grinyer 2025-Mar-22 67 minutes |
|
#53: Another Needful Freedom: Truth in Tension with Mike Brock, ex-tech-exec, reluctant Cassandra 2025-Mar-14 177 minutes |
|
#52: We Are Not Machines! Agency & Science beyond Computationalism with Fotis and Yogi (Johannes Jaeger) 2025-Mar-05 96 minutes |
|
#51: Body Knowledge with philosophers Shay Welch and Elena Cuffari 2025-Feb-27 78 minutes |
|
#50: Love and Liberation in Times of Crisis with philosopher Rupert Read (and Wittgenstein) 2025-Feb-13 86 minutes |
|
#49: Empowerment in Robotics: Solo Brainstorm & AI Bonus Conversation with Dari Trendafilov 2025-Jan-31 75 minutes |
|
#48: In Defense of the Human Being with Thomas Fuchs 2025-Jan-27 65 minutes |
|
#47: Love Beyond Subject and Object with therapist & neuroscientist Mark Solms 2025-Jan-24 61 minutes |
|
#46: Rhythms of Nature & Love: Hegel's Concept of Life with philosopher Karen Ng 2025-Jan-15 76 minutes |
|
#45: Living Beyond the Blind Spot with Philosopher Evan Thompson 2025-Jan-01 80 minutes |
|
#44: The Flow of Life: An Unusual Winter Walk with Karl Friston and his Free Energy Principle 2024-Dec-25 122 minutes |
|
#43: Environment is Not in the Head: Why everyone's talking about Affordances with Harry Heft 2024-Dec-19 80 minutes |
|
#42: Academic dissonance, unexpected paths & process with neuroscientist and Brain Inspired Paul Middlebrooks 2024-Dec-11 88 minutes |
|
#41: Paths of Power and Paradox with Minna Salami, author of Sensuous Knowledge 2024-Dec-04 102 minutes |
#40: All Those Yesterdays: a lifelong conversation with poet-philosopher John Koethe2024-Nov-28 65 minutes |
|
#39: The Real World and its Many Models with philosopher Michela Massimi 2024-Nov-21 74 minutes |
|
Holding Paradox: Beyond Dichotomies 2024-Nov-21 5 minutes |
|
#38: What is Consciousness and Where Can We Find It? with philosopher & computer scientist Bernardo Kastrup 2024-Nov-14 147 minutes |
|
#37: Our Entanglement: Striving with problems (in a good way) with philosopher Alva Noë 2024-Nov-07 91 minutes |
|
#36: Feeling into the Source of Self with neuropsychologist Mark Solms 2024-Oct-30 62 minutes |
|
#35: Embracing Everyday Battles: Design as Philosophy with Sheng-Hung Lee 2024-Oct-23 74 minutes |
|
#34: Heideggerian Robots of Phenomenology and Cognitive Science with Michael Wheeler and Mirko Prokop 2024-Oct-17 109 minutes |
|
#33: Synchronizing Mind, Nature, and Neuroscience: Spacetime Experimentation with Georg Northoff 2024-Oct-10 89 minutes |
|
#32: The Minds of Plants with Paco Calvo: Are plants intelligent? 2024-Oct-02 96 minutes |
|
#31: Power in Polarity? Rethinking opposition in design and life with Alastair Duckworth 2024-Sep-25 80 minutes |
|
#30: Swimming Against the Fame Stream: the Power in Taking Life Slowly and with Purpose, Lucas Vos 2024-Sep-23 72 minutes |
#29: Pattern Language, Wholeness and Place-synergy: discussing Christopher Alexander with geographer David Seamon2024-Sep-08 80 minutes |
|
#28: Remembering Human Resilience in the age of A.I. with Maria Santacaterina 2024-Aug-25 80 minutes |
|
#27: Disrupting Expectations: Existential Life and Love with philosopher Skye Cleary 2024-Aug-12 62 minutes |
|
#26: Saving Yourself by Being Yourself with the legendary Darryl Pinckney 2024-Aug-06 80 minutes |
|
#25: How the World Thinks with Julian Baggini: Moving beyond Western philosophy 2024-Jul-30 89 minutes |
|
#24: Taking Category Theory to Heart: The Personal Side of Mathematics with Brandon Baylor 2024-Jul-24 86 minutes |
|
#23: Any Human Power: Thinking Thrutopia instead of Dystopia with Manda Scott 2024-Jul-14 79 minutes |
|
#22: Maps are Their Own Territory with Mahault Albarracin 2024-Jul-13 60 minutes |
|
PhD Talks: Thinking Through Life: New approaches to sustainable heritage with Jonathan Doe 2024-Jul-08 49 minutes |
|
#21: Knowing and the Known: Consciousness, Cognition and Joint Speech with Fred Cummins 2024-Jul-07 109 minutes |
|
PhD Talks: Can we model cognition? And what is a model anyway? with Paul Kelly 2024-Jun-30 134 minutes |
|
#20: What is Intelligence? Brains, Evolution, and A.I. with Max Bennett 2024-Jun-21 60 minutes |
|
#19: Is anything objective? Philosophy of mind, Biophilia, and why A.I. is not what we think with Inês Hipólito 2024-Jun-05 88 minutes |
|
#18: BrainGPT, Neuroscience & Loving the Ants in Ourselves with Brad Love 2024-May-30 111 minutes |
|
#17: How Not to Waste a Life: Asymmetrical Reconciliation with Iain McGilchrist 2024-May-05 74 minutes |
|
BONUS: Intention and Elizabeth Anscombe with Mirko Prokop 2024-May-01 96 minutes |
|
#16: Higher Order Math and Love with Carlos Zapata Carratalá 2024-Apr-26 157 minutes |
|
PhD Talks: Scaling Autonomous Self-Actualization with Timo Schuler 2024-Apr-17 57 minutes |
#13: An Economic Love for Humanity with Paddy LeFlufy (with EMI)2024-Apr-08 78 minutes |
|
#14: The Art of Conversation with Paul Holdengräber 2024-Mar-24 78 minutes |
|
#12: Among Superheroes: Memories, Maps & McGill with psychologist Lynn Nadel 2024-Mar-09 68 minutes |
#11: From Ants to Active Inference with Daniel Ari Friedman2024-Jan-23 88 minutes |
|
#10: Pattern, Meaning and Integration with author Jeremy Lent 2024-Jan-08 74 minutes |
|
#9: Nature and Clarity with biologist Michael Levin 2023-Dec-24 56 minutes |
#8: What Can a Computer Be? with Flora Moon and Esteban Montero2023-Dec-23 99 minutes |
#7: Mutual Transformative Change with Richard Watson2023-Nov-29 81 minutes |
#6: Scales & Science Fiction with Michael Levin2023-Nov-02 64 minutes |
#5: The Power of Focus with C. Thi Nguyen2023-Oct-07 62 minutes |
|
#4: Crossing Bounds and Philosophy of Love Improv with Dr. Alex Moseley 2023-Sep-23 83 minutes |
|
#3: Internal & External Coherence with Lisa Fitzhugh 2023-Sep-01 100 minutes |
|
#2: Curious Minds & Edge-working with Perry Zurn 2023-Aug-31 55 minutes |