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Information and data will never deliver creativity

Life, information, and the search for meaning New piece out on IAI news: Many claim informational systems cannot be truly creative in the way human artists are because they lack human emotion and originality. But philosopher and cognitive scientist, Hanne De Jaegher, argues the issue is deeper still: AI is not alive. It has no […]

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Mind and Life podcast

Have you been wondering what’s the latest on love, cognition, and living well together? Check out this podcast interview, in which I try not to shy away from the difficulties, tensions, and boundaries we all inevitably bump into while interacting with each other. Interview by Wendy Hasenkamp, for the Mind and Life podcast. In this […]

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Mens blijven met dementie

Vandaag, 11 mei 2021, is het 5 jaar geleden dat mijn vader, Luc De Jaegher, stierf. Zijn gedachtegoed, werk, leven, en ziekte zijn lang en diep verweven met mijn denken. Eerder dit jaar nodigde Ellen Reijmers mij uit om een stuk te schrijven voor het Systeemtheoretisch Bulletin — tijdschrift van de Interactie-Academie.be, voor het jubileumnummer […]

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Seeing and inviting participation in autistic interactions (video)

On 8th December 2020, I presented this paper at the COGS Seminar series at the University of Sussex, my old Alma Mater. Presentation co-organised with Sussex’ ChatLab. This work is published in Transcultural Psychiatry, under the title: Seeing and inviting participation in autistic interactions Abstract:What does it take to see how autistic people participate in […]

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Lamellen

Na de tweede les op de schrijfcursus geeft Mounir als huiswerk: Schrijf een column van maximaal 350 woorden, over iets wat je meemaakt deze week. Maak het persoonlijk, geef je mening, een reflectie. Bij voorkeur iets van jezelf ontbloten. Ik werk de eerste drie dagen van de week zo hard, dat het me toeschijnt dat […]

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Listening

At the till, I hear my partner say to the cashier: “It’s busy today!” It takes a moment, but then he surfaces out of the automatism of scanning groceries. His face lights up and he says: “Yes, it is!” and smiles a little smile. The interaction between us has opened up a smidgen. This is […]

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Loving and knowing (paper)

New paper at Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences (open access): De Jaegher, H. (online first 19/08/2019) Loving and knowing. Reflections for an engaged epistemology. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, doi:10.1007/s11097-019-09634-5 (pdf) ABSTRACT: In search of our highest capacities, cognitive scientists aim to explain things like mathematics, language, and planning (and while explaining them, they often […]

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Aarzeling

Bij de boekpresentatie van Denken over liefde hoeft geen schrik aan te jagen (11/10/2018, de Groene Waterman, Antwerpen)* las ik deze tekst voor: Aarzeling   “We always hesitate when we wish for something” (theaterdirecteur Zofia Kalinska) “It is the story of this hesitation that is the point of writing” (schrijver Deborah Levy)** — We aarzelen, […]

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Loving and Knowing (video)

In this talk, I invite the audience to think together with me about the question What is it to know something? Cognitive science and philosophy of mind like to portray knowing as something that doesn’t require much involvement of the heart. But I explore the idea that knowing is, in a particular sense, loving, and that loving is, […]