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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · Aug 20

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...

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.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 26d

"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/...

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 26d

. @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/🧵

September 12, 2025 — Safeguarding Science from AI: An Interview with Olivia Guest and Iris van Rooij

YouTube video by Disrupted Science

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Love & Philosophy @lovephilosophy.substack.com · Aug 22

🎙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

The Core of Knowing is Loving with philosopher Hanne De Jaegher

Listen now | Episode #68

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hanne de jaegher @participha.bsky.social · Sep 8

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...

Scotiabank Dance Centre Open House - The Dance Centre

The 24th annual Open House offers a chance to experience a host of different dance styles, in an afternoon of free classes, showings and events Read more

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · Sep 7

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"

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

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Marek @marekmcgann.bsky.social · Sep 7

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

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.

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Marek @marekmcgann.bsky.social · Sep 7

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?

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.

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · Aug 28

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”

www.quaker.org.uk

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Mind & Life Europe @mindandlifeeu.bsky.social · May 20

👋 Welcome to the official Bluesky account of Mind & Life Europe!

We explore the intersection of science, contemplative wisdom, and human flourishing.

Follow us for research, reflections, and events bridging mind and life. 🌱🧠🌍

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hanne de jaegher @participha.bsky.social · Apr 28

Complexity fatigued? Try some participatory sense-making!

Beck Todd @beckety.bsky.social · Apr 26

New Love and Philosophy podcast from @lovephilosophy.substack.com with me, aerial dancer/philosopher Shay Welch & "frequency barista" penijean gracefire on complexity fatigue & the "third entity" - the interactive process that takes on a life of its own lovephilosophy.substack.com/p/complexity...

Complexity Fatigue & the 3rd Entity

Listen now | are we making any sense together in this world?

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𖤐B𖤐 @neuroyogacara.bsky.social · Mar 30

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

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Steven Kapp @drstevenkapp.bsky.social · Apr 25

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...

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Institute of Art and Ideas @iai.tv · Apr 12

“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

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…

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Institute of Art and Ideas @iai.tv · Apr 7

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 | Hanne De Jaegher

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hanne de jaegher @participha.bsky.social · Apr 7

"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."

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hanne de jaegher @participha.bsky.social · Apr 7

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.

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Information and data will never deliver creativity | Hanne De Jaegher

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hanne de jaegher @participha.bsky.social · Feb 12

More on participatory sense-making and healing:

shows.acast.com/661439abee41...

"Beyond Healing: New Narratives for Making Sense Together" | Mind & Life Europe Podcast

Amy Cohen Varela, Dr Rika Preiser, and Dr Sanneke De Haan

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𖤐B𖤐 @neuroyogacara.bsky.social · Feb 11

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

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hanne de jaegher @participha.bsky.social · Feb 11

What is Participatory Sensemaking and Why Should We Care?

Interview by Beck Todd @beckety.bsky.social

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

What is Participatory Sensemaking and Why Should We Care?

Tracing its Roots in Systems Thinking, Neurodivergence, and Marxist Theory

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hanne de jaegher @participha.bsky.social · Jan 17

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."

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hanne de jaegher @participha.bsky.social · Jan 17

"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. ...

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hanne de jaegher @participha.bsky.social · Jan 17

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

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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...

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Beck Todd @beckety.bsky.social · Dec 28

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...

Trauma-born Sensemaking and Living to Die

An interview with Shay Welch

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hanne de jaegher @participha.bsky.social · Jan 6

.. 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.

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