It's publication day for my book with @craigspeelman.bsky.social!
"The Great Psychology Delusion" is an unsentimental look at the conceptual mess of psychology, and how to improve.
Psychology is several sciences, and we need to get clear about them.
More soon!
www.routledge.com/The-Great-Ps...
a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning.
Pages from a mini comic
Pages from a mini comic
Pages from a mini comic
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...
But what iseducation? Embodied and enactive cognitive sciences remind us that knowledge is not something discrete that an individual possesses and passes down but an inherently dynamic and evolving endeavour that develops in the process of embodied, curious and engaged interaction through dialogue. The pinnacle of cognition, particularly ‘human knowing’, is inextricably interwoven with interactions we engage in
with each other and the physical, cultural and social world we inhabit, ‘so much so that individuals are not thinkable outside of their interactions and embeddedness in their (social) world’ (De Jaegher, 2019). Dialogic models of knowledge and education emphasize that interactions between a student and teacher and/or peer provide ‘scaffolding’ for how that child understands the world. The always in flux, active and continually transforming nature of human cognition necessitates that education be fundamentally an ongoing activity. Far from the reductionist view whereby ‘formal knowledge’ can be packaged and acquired from an LLM, the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care and humility are fostered and mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions
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"
Although we do not fully understand human thinking, this does not licence attributing thinking to whichever machine or technology, uncritically and through anthropomorphisation. Such arguments from ignorance lack all scientific rigour. The only argument from ignorance that science permits is caution, more research, and care as appropriate actions when something is truly unknown.
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
Students have always cheated. Bending and breaking the rules is human nature. And by the same token, educators are not police. We are not here to obsessively surveil our students — education is based on mutual trust. Therefore, our duty is to build mutually shared values with our students and colleagues.
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
"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
— 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...
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...
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"
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...
.. 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..
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...
