Waymaking posits all cognition as making way through encounters . I use ‘encounter’ because waymaking is movement in all realms (mental, physical, virtual, etc.). In this theory, walking is a form of cognition, and thinking and memory are understood as means of finding our way through encountered sensory regularities. 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,
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 .
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 beings 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