The Navigational Approach in Embodied Cognition (NAEC)

NAES is a spatial philosophy of mind developed by philosopher and professor Andrea Hiott, who is also trained in neuroscience.

Combines hippocampal research with embodied, processual and phenomenological philosophy towards a new approach to the definition and study of cognition.

Resources:

Holding Paradox: A Navigational Approach to Mind and Consciousness (book)

Radical Embodied Relation at Any Scale: From Rembering to Navigating (paper)

Waymaking (blog)

Navigability (videos)

Further conversations about this (videos)

Some of the interviews and diaries that happened in the making of these ideas

Crucial: All navigability is inaccurate precisely because it is a representation/model and thus limited to the position, orientation and reason for which it was made. Navigability is a heuristic towards opening perspective, not anything that can be objective. There is no 'one' or 'right' navigability. Also, 'affordance' does not mean 'good' or 'bad' but is a way of discussing interactive probability.These are maps, not territories, and there are many different maps that can be made of a shared space depending on what part of the territory one is hoping to better understand. Those maps are different from each position and matter differently from each position accordingly.