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A link trail to follow as your senses fit best. Follow the path that fits where you're standing.
The Framework
Navigational Approach to Embodied Science — NAES The philosophical and scientific spine of Andrea's work. Start with the Springer Nature paper — Radical Embodied Relation at any Scale, from Remembering to Navigating — free to read and download here.
As Applies to built environments:
Way-ability and cognitive affordances (urban planning)
Some of the Books
Holding Paradox — Iff Books, September 2025 The philosophical introduction to NAEC. Pre-order now.
How to Be Alive — Harper One, 2027 A personal exploration of NAEC for a general audience. Join the waitlist.
Thinking Small — Random House A philosophical history of the Volkswagen Beetle and what it reveals about thinking as movement. Available now.
Embracing Paradox — Making Ways A 44-page guide to holding contradictory ideas without collapsing them. Pay what you want. Included with paid Waymaking subscription.
AI Everywhere — She Writes AI community, co-authored. Available now.
Some of the Writing
Waymaking Substack — Andrea's personal philosophical home. Where NAEC is built in real time, where philosophy and ordinary life intersect. Free and paid tiers.
Vulnerable Voice Memos — Paid tier on Waymaking. Personal, unpolished recordings from inside the research. For those who want that kind of proximity.
Love & Philosophy Substack — The primary community newsletter. Beyond dichotomy. It's reasonable to care.
Some of the Conversations
YouTube — Love & Philosophy with Andrea Hiott — 300 conversations with scientists, philosophers, artists, and thinkers working beyond either/or. 86,000 subscribers.
Start here if you're new: Navigational Mind — Andrea explains NAEC in her own words. Karl Friston conversation — (add link)Michael Levin conversation — (add link)Manda Scott conversation — (add link)
Beyond Dichotomy Podcast — Listen on your favourite platform.
Ways to join with the Community
Making Ways — A multimedia care collective and community for philosophical inquiry across every boundary that usually keeps disciplines and people apart.
Care Community — Free global community for people across all disciplines for whom care shapes their practice.
Philosophy Index — Free index bridging academic and independent philosophy.
Love & Philosophy — The broader project. Beyond dichotomy. It's reasonable to care.
Some of the Research
Springer Nature paper — Radical Embodied Relation at any Scale — Open access. Free to read.
Universität Heidelberg — Doctoral research, philosophy faculty.
Get in Touch
To contribute a conversation to Love & Philosophy or to help build what this is becoming: admin@loveandphilosophy.com
To sustain this work as an individual or organization in a way that keeps it free and unconstrained: admin@loveandphilosophy.com
Studied neuroscience, stayed a philosopher. Slipping out of either/or frames and into constellations of care. Developing the Navigational Approach to Embodied Cognition (NAEC). Next books: Holding Paradox (Iff Books) and How to Be Alive (Harper One, 2027).
Neuroscience related public talks:
Karl Friston — On his Free Energy Principle and Active Inference, exploring how organisms interact with their environment to maintain homeostasis and how active inference provides a first-principles account of sentient behavior. The conversation also explores flow, fractals, social neuroscience, and listening. Also on Substack
Thomas Metzinger — A wide-ranging conversation exploring minimal phenomenal experience, the intersection of philosophy, neuroscience, meditation, and AI, the concept of suffering in both humans and machines, and the responsibility of philosophers in an age of epistemic crisis. Also in video.
Mark Solms — A conversation about the hierarchical levels of consciousness, from raw feeling to abstract thought, and how it relates to love. Solms explains his position as a dual aspect monist and emphasizes the importance of incorporating subjectivity into scientific exploration. And a 2nd conversation here.
Lynn Nadel (multiple episodes) — A multi-part conversation on the hippocampus, memory, and cognitive mapping, including the history of how McGill University figures like Penfield, Milner, O'Keefe, and Hebb shaped modern neuroscience.
Evan Thompson — An episode titled "Living Beyond the Blind Spot" with the philosopher known for his work in phenomenology and enactive cognition.
Michael Levin (multiple episodes) — Multi-part conversations with the Tufts biologist on scales of cognition, bioelectricity, and how science fiction helped him see beyond dichotomies.
Ezequiel Di Paolo — Episode #67 on enactive cognition, bringing forth worlds, and the work of Francisco Varela; followed by an episode on participatory sense-making.
Hanne De Jaegher — Episode on participatory sense-making and "loving and knowing."
Nicolás Hinrichs— Episode #75 on hyperscanning and interbrain synchrony — the "third brain" that arises in interaction — and why neural misalignment matters.
Rebecca Todd (with Shay Welch and Penijean Gracefire) — A group conversation exploring participatory sense-making, the concept of the "third entity," and the impact of trauma and love on interpersonal relationships, drawing on cognitive neuroscience and philosophy. Apple Podcasts
Daniel Ari Friedman — A conversation on Active Inference, cognition, perception, and action, drawing on Deborah Gordon's work on ants.
Marek McGann — On enactive cognitive science, embodiment, and the critique of mainstream psychology in The Great Psychology Delusion.
Johannes (Yogi) Jaeger — An episode titled "We Are Not Machines!" on agency and critiquing the mechanistic/computationalist worldview.