Love, Phenomenology, and Waymaking with Andrea Hiott

This week’s guest on the Intelligent Teams Podcast is Philosopher, Neuroscientist and Podcaster Andrea Hiott.

Andrea is the host of the Love and Philosophy - Beyond Dichotomy podcast, where she interviews some of the worlds most eminent thinkers about mind, cognition and experience. Andrea is a researcher at Universität Heidelberg in Utrecht developing her philosophy of Waymaking.

I stumbled across Andrea’s work about 6 months ago when researching for my own podcast and have been blown away at the way she integrates thinking and thinkers from across science, philosophy and the humanities. She connects love and poetry with hard science and thorny philosophical problems seamlessly and her curious and holistic way of seeing the world really shines through in this episode. It was really an honour to have Andrea on the podcast.

We covered many topics including:

* how Andrea became interested in philosophy and the mind

* Phenomenology and embodied cognition

* Dichotomies in different disciplines and moving beyond boundaries

* Philosophy as a way of life and a living approach

* Love at work, and why it is so difficult to talk about love

* Religion, complexity, awe and connectedness

* Workplaces as religions

* Identifying as an individual or part of a community

* Scrum and Agile at individual and team levels of analysis

* Gibson, affordances and sports teams

* Waymaking and being embodied in the world

* Cultural scaffolding and extended mind

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