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Mind & Life Europe Podcast

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About the show

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Latest episodes

  • Constellating Care in a Precarious World

    September 17, 2026 · 1 hr 42 min

    Speaking with Andrea Hiott was very much akin to moving through a dynamic constellation of ideas and watching that constellation shapeshift in real time. Hers is an intellect that dwells in paradox, that embraces movement, and that does…

  • Season 4 Trailer: Empowering through Caring

    September 17, 2026 · 5 min

    Welcome back, dear listeners. In Season 4 of The Enactive Fold, we are "Empowering through Caring." You can learn more about our 2026-2027 programming theme on our website. If you'd like to support our work, including this podcast, you…

  • “A question of wisdom”: Improvisation, Ethics, and the Permeability of Being Alive

    March 25, 2026 · 1 hr 49 min

    Stephen Nachmanovitch is widely known as a musical improviser, and wise teacher of improvisation. But his is an improvisation not separate from life; it is more that of a Zen master’s, tuning into the microscopic contingencies of everyday…

  • “Sitting with the Drift”: Imagination, Speculation, and Reenchanted Futures

    February 26, 2026 · 1 hr 15 min

    Himali Singh Soin and David Soin Tappeser are forces to behold. As they describe themselves, they are “an artist duo whose work combines poetry and music to conjure speculative futures and multiverses.” Their collective, which you’ll hear…

  • “Hope is a Stance”: Ecology, Aesthetics, and Pluralities of Reason

    January 29, 2026 · 1 hr 51 min

    What if we began to think of reason as plural — reasons or reasonings — rather than the monolithic "Reason" from on high? What would it be like to think with all five senses, going beyond our habitual ocularcentrism? What if affect were…

  • "Rhizome of Relations": Unfolding the Potential of the Modern Museum

    December 18, 2025 · 1 hr 13 min

    In the highly regulated spaces of most museums today, is it possible to enact a different type of experience, one that is relational, participatory, and even aspirational? Can the public be just as important as the artist and curator in…

  • "Ambush of Amazement": Ethics, Meaning, and Music with Legendary Poet Jane Hirshfield

    November 20, 2025 · 1 hr 49 min

    In the words of Jane Hirshfield, “science exists to try to answer the questions that can be answered. Poems exist to answer the questions that cannot be answered and yet require of us some response.” Her poems do just this, but with the…

  • Season 3 Trailer: Introducing "The Enactive Fold"

    November 20, 2025 · 5 min

    Welcome back to the Mind & Life Europe Podcast — "The Enactive Fold" — in which you'll be hearing from thinkers, researchers, and creators, whose voices and work rhyme with the enactive approach to mind, life, and experience. To learn…