Mind & Life Europe Podcast Season 3 Trailer: Introducing "The Enactive Fold"
Nov 20, 2025
This trailer dives into the enactive approach to mind and experience, exploring how cognition emerges from organism-environment interactions. It emphasizes the ethical implications of viewing the mind as interconnected rather than separate, warning against extraction and control. The podcast introduces the concept of 5E cognition, which encompasses embodied, enacted, extended, embedded, and ecological perspectives. Season three promises diverse guests and an arts theme, fostering long-form discussions that deepen understanding of these crucial concepts.
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Mind Emerges In Interaction
- The enactive approach sees mind as emerging in interactions between organisms and their environment.
- Cognition and agency exist across relations, not solely inside individual heads.
Use Concrete Examples To Teach Enaction
- Imagining simple interactions (like a handshake) reveals how social practices emerge from relations.
- Use such examples to challenge ideas of fixed, individual possessions like 'my handshake.'
Concepts of Mind Shape Action
- How we conceptualize mind shapes how we treat the world and other people.
- Viewing minds as separate promotes extraction and control, while enactive views foster responsibility and relationality.