Mind & Life Europe Podcast
Episodes
“A question of wisdom”: Improvisation, ethics, and the permeability of being alive
25 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
[A note to listeners] We'd like to ask for your support in spreading the word: if you're enjoying these conversations and would like to hear more, ple...
“Sitting with the Drift”: Imagination, Speculation, and Reenchanted Futures
26 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
“Hope is a Stance”: Ecology, Aesthetics, and Pluralities of Reason
29 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Rhizome of Relations: Unfolding the Potential of the Modern Museum
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the highly regulated spaces of most museums today, is it possible to enact a different type of experience, one that is relational, participatory, a...
"Ambush of Amazement": Ethics, Meaning, and Music with Legendary Poet Jane Hirshfield
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 canno...
Season 3 Trailer: Introducing "The Enactive Fold"
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to the Mind & Life Europe Podcast — "The Enactive Fold" — in which you'll be hearing from thinkers, researchers, and creators, wh...
"The Somatic Dance: Curating a Life in the Midst of Breakdown"
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does enacting the world look like for organisms who are not thriving, but merely surviving? What happens when we don’t have access to the activ...
"Knowing-in-Connection: Improvisation as Praxis for Life and Art"
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This conversation was a rich and potent gathering of creative minds, whose lives and work have long orbited practices of improvisation, co-creation, a...
"Learning Laterally: Unsettling the Normative Gestures of Pedagogy"
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Transversal operations for the creation of ways of knowing emerge from the ground up. They are singular and speculative at once, emboldened by the ...
"An Enactive AI? Computing and Sense-Making Beyond the Data-Driven Approach"
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With few conversations did I feel the stakes to be so high, so thorny and complex. For this conversation on “Computing Differently,” I sat down wi...
"Beyond Healing: New Narratives for Making Sense Together"
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In no other conversation this season has the relationship between ontology and ethics felt more pressing and more pregnant. How we define a person, ho...
"Atopos: Neurodiversity & the Power of Participatory Sense-Making"
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Few conversations have been as illustrative as this one of the proximity between participatory sense-making as a theory and participatory sense-making...
“Enactive Ethics: Difference Becoming Participation”
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features three remarkably engaged and engaging thinkers and collaborators. Dr Elena Cuffari, Dr Hanne De Jaegher, and Dr Ezequiel Di Paol...
"Opening Up the Space Between Us"
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As an introduction to this new season of conversations, I sat down with Dr Hanne De Jaegher, who was the backbone of Semester 4 of our Core Enaction P...
[Trailer] Season 2: Knowing, Being, Doing
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this second season of the podcast, we are prolonging an experiment of sorts that we conducted in the spring of 2024 in the Core Enaction Programme,...
“Phenomenology in the Making”
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is the brilliant multidimensional thinker Michel Bitbol, a rare mind that is as well versed in medicine and physics as it is in Buddhis...
“(Im)mersive Epistemologies in Physics, Philosophy, and Buddhism”
13 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is the brilliant multidimensional thinker Michel Bitbol, a rare mind that is as well versed in medicine and physics as it is in Buddhis...
“A Community of Minds”
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is the brilliant multidimensional thinker Michel Bitbol, a rare mind that is as well versed in medicine and physics as it is in Buddhis...
“The Blind Spot: Opening Up Our Understanding of Human Experience”
16 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Evan Thompson, known to many in the worlds of cognitive science, Asian studies, and philosophy, and one of the foundational figures ...
“Coming into One’s Own as an Enactive Thinker”
09 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Evan Thompson, known to many in the worlds of cognitive science, Asian studies, and philosophy, and one of the foundational figures ...
"Epistemology Matters"
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Amy Cohen Varela is Chairperson of the Mind & Life Europe Board and has been involved with Mind and Life since its inception. She is also a clinic...
"Epistemophilia: The Pleasure of the Search"
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Amy Cohen Varela is Chairperson of the Mind & Life Europe Board and has been involved with Mind and Life since its inception. She is also a clinic...
“Not Two Minds, But One Mind”
11 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Amy Cohen Varela is Chairperson of the Mind & Life Europe Board and has been involved with Mind and Life since its inception. She is also a clinic...
[Trailer] Season 1: Opening Up the Space Between Us
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After a careful period of incubation, we are thrilled to announce the official launch of the new Mind & Life Europe Podcast! We are particula...