“I'm passionate about dialogues that explore sense and meaning making. I am a host myself; I appreciate talks with solution-oriented persons.”
As a host of an interview series myself, I've always been curious about an 'interview the interviewer' format.
I might identify as a philosophical hobbyist. I am interested in philosophy of mind and layered ontology. At present, I enjoy process relational heuristics, self-organizing systems and autopoietic aggregation into complexity as curious means to help decode biological being states. Active inference and updating of priors ala Friston and the work of Michael Levin and many others have value for me in sense making. Distributed cognition, predictive processing, four 'E' and four 'P' cognition are of interest too. I also appreciate the exploration of small t teleology; or more clearly stated, personally generated telos or goal directedness. HG Moller, via Luhmann's thoughts on profilicity and second order observers is another interest of mine.
I am also interested in what I call the 'will to spirit'. It is humanity's drive to seek the transcendent as a means to relate to the ordinary by way of ritual, disruption and dialectic.
I am interested in general audience or popular level psychology and cognitive science as well.
I can talk about tropical botany and horticulture, film and music too. I am not an expert in anything, but I do have passion for what I claim to understand.
Although I am nontheistic, ignostic I do love to talk about mysticism, especially late medieval Sufic and low country Christian mysticism. I also much appreciate talking about and learning from Advita Vedanta and teachers such as Shankara and in more recent history, Sri Aurobindo.
What I am drawn to above all is dialoguing about human wellbeing and thriving in an otherwise chaotic, natural and contrived world.
I advocate for Zoom based pre-meets, so people can figure out if I am a fit for their show.
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