Andreas Roepstorff - Interacting Minds

In this episode, Wendy speaks with anthropologist and neuroscientist Andreas Roepstorff. Andreas has been a pioneer in integrating these two approaches, examining how social context impacts the mind and brain. Their conversation covers a range of topics, including:

• navigating academic training in two disciplines, and how he bridges the different perspectives of neuroscience and anthropology;
• how being a research subject changed his view of subjective experience;
• intersubjectivity, and his work to bring together first- and third-person perspectives;
• research on fire-walking;
• meditation and microphenomenology;
• studying playfulness;
• predictive models of mind;
• the power of mindfulness to help with rumination;
• and the importance of exploring how two minds can process and respond differently to the same experience.

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