Wellbeing Walkabout | Discovering ecological self
Waymaking posits all cognition as making way through encounters . I use ‘encounter’ because way-making is movement in all realms (mental, physical, virtual, etc.). In this theory, the ways humans and other begins move (or are moved) such as walking, swimming, and crawling are taken as first order cognition (they are not ‘thought’ or ‘mind’; they are the 'ways we make’ towards building them). Those activities traditionally considered cognitive (such as thought and memory) are likewise understood as means of
Hippocampal research (or more specifically, research on the hippocampal formation and entorhinal cortex) has expanded greatly over the past century and now shows us how knowledge acquisition, memory, and spatiotemporal navigation might be understood as a common process. I am formulating these findings into a general framework that can be used heuristically to understand cognition as a common process across species, and that alleviates traditional philosophical dichotomies.
You can find some of my other projects at Andrea Hiott Books , Geography of Mind or Ecological Orientation . Upcoming: Love & Philosophy with EcO and Forever Motoring with Curtiss Motorcycles . I’m also at work on a book about the pilot Bessie Coleman .
Wellbeing Walkabout | Discovering ecological self