A podcast by Mind & Life Europe, emphasising the importance of exploratory dialogue, radical candour, intersubjectivity, and listening as an epistemology. Inspired by the groundbreaking work of our co-founder, the Chilean neurobiologist and philosopher Francisco Varela, these conversations are one more way of exploring what has been the lodestar for our work at Mind & Life Europe: the continuity between mind and life, or in Francisco’s own formulation, “living as sense-making.”
Mind & Life Europe is a home for unconventional interdisciplinary encounters, where researchers and practitioners enrich one another in their understanding of mind and life, through the rigour of scientific inquiry, the openness of philosophical investigation, the edginess of artistic exploration, and the depth of contemplative wisdom traditions. We believe that holding an open-hearted and interdisciplinary space of dialogue is in itself a radical, ethical mode of being-in-the-world, which generates new pathways of research and collective sense-making with transformative potential.
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A podcast by Mind & Life Europe, emphasising the importance of exploratory dialogue, radical candour, intersubjectivity, and listening as an epistemology. Inspired by the groundbreaking work of our co-founder, the Chilean neurobiologist and philosopher Francisco Varela, these conversations are one more way of exploring what has been the lodestar for our work at Mind & Life Europe: the continuity between mind and life, or in Francisco’s own formulation, “living as sense-making.”
Mind & Life Europe is a home for unconventional interdisciplinary encounters, where researchers and practitioners enrich one another in their understanding of mind and life, through the rigour of scientific inquiry, the openness of philosophical investigation, the edginess of artistic exploration, and the depth of contemplative wisdom traditions. We believe that holding an open-hearted and interdisciplinary space of dialogue is in itself a radical, ethical mode of being-in-the-world, which generates new pathways of research and collective sense-making with transformative potential.
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After a careful period of incubation, we are thrilled to announce the official launch of the new Mind & Life Europe Podcast!
We are particularly excited because the intimate, conversational nature of podcasts lends itself to the specific tenor of our work at Mind & Life Europe (MLE), emphasising the importance of exploratory dialogue, radical candour, intersubjectivity, and listening as an epistemology. In 2024, our conversations will be "Opening Up the Space Between Us," engaging our guests through the prism of our yearly banner theme. And in the background of these conversations, you'll hear a central preoccupation of ours that has been the lodestar of MLE since its founding: the continuity between mind and life, or in Francisco Varela’s own formulation, “living as sense-making.”
Our guests for Season 1 will be Amy Cohen Varela, Evan Thompson, and Michel Bitbol. Beginning the podcast series with these three foundational figures will allow us to open the space between our past and present, and hear from three thinkers who exquisitely embody the idea of "always keeping the question open."
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