Prof Jeffrey Yoshimi is a professor in the departments of Cognitive and Information Sciences and Philosophy at UC Merced. He studies the relationship between the dynamics of consciousness and the dynamics of neural activity in an embodied brain. As part of this, Prof Yoshimi models neural networks, creates mathematical models of embodied agents and studies Husserl.
Darius Parvizi-Wayne is a PhD student at Macquarie University, exploring the relationship between absorbed coping, being-in-the-world, subjectivity and active inference. He was also the host of the Active Inference Insights podcast, which is affiliated with the Active Inference Institute.
Husserl was famously critical of the "mathematizing tendencies" of modern science. However, Prof Jeffrey Yoshimi and Darius Parvizi-wayne contend that mathematical methods are apt for phenomenology, and, in fact, Husserl himself used them. In this episode, we discuss the flow states through the active inference framework, Hubert Dreyfus' reading of Heidegger and the relationship between phenomenology and mathematics.
You can find more of Prof Yoshimi's work at https://jeffyoshimi.net/ and https://philosophy.ucmerced.edu/content/jeff-yoshimi and Darius's work at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Darius-Parvizi-Wayne
Watch the video version here.
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