I write unscripted every other Wednesday on something related to the Navigational Approach to Mind, which I’ve been working towards for over a decade in philosophy and neuroscience. This post is a bit more psychedelic than others, but that’s partly because it requires some strangeness to slip into a constellatory perspective from the usual dichotomous ones. This navigational approach can be taken literally or metaphorically. Metaphorically may be most helpful at first, but I mean it literally. I’m trying to find ways to make that meaningful. Thank you for making this journey with me.
Minds are actions by which bodies move and steer themselves.
What are minds?
Minds are bodily actions.
When you are thinking or remembering or ‘listening to that voice inside your head’, you’re doing something similar to what you are doing when you are driving or when you are walking, you’re just doing it through different sorts of landscapes. Call them landscapes of the mind, but actually, mi…
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