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IOK Leadership Retreat: Videos
Saggi & Articoli
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The Disencapsulated Mind: A Premotor Theory of Human ImaginationPeter Ulric Tse
The Evolution of Intelligence (keynote)
Peter Ulric Tse, 2024Kin relationality and ecological belonging: a cultural psychology of Indigenous transcendence
Yuria Celidwen and Dacher KeltnerEthical principles of traditional Indigenous medicine to guide western psychedelic research and practice
Yuria Celidwen, Ph.D., Nicole Redvers, N.D., M.PH., Cicilia Githaiga M.A., Janeth Calambás, Miguel Evanjuanoy Chindoy, Juan Nelson Rojas, Delores Mondragón M.A., Yuniur Vázquez Rosalío, Angelina SacbajáThe case for expanding the definition of intelligence
Marcelo Gleiser, Big Think, 2025What Is Intelligence? At a church in Italy, we sought to shed an old definition for one that could save us
Amanda Gefter, Nautilus, October 2025 -
A response to ‘Biological agency: a concept without a research program’
Philip Ball, 2024How Life Really Works (article)
Philip Ball, 2023We are not machines (article)
Philip Ball, 2024Uncanny Ecologies – More-than-Natural, More-than-Human, More-than-Secular
Mayanthi Fernando, 2023The Voyage of Life
Robert M. Hazen, 2025Themes and Variations in Complex Systems
Robert M. Hazen and Niles Eldredge, 2010Re-conceptualizing the origins of life
Sara I. Walker, N. Packard and G. D. Cody, 2025On the roles of function and selection in evolving systems
Michael L. Wong, Carol E. Cleland, Daniel Arend Jr., Stuart Bartlett, H. James Cleaves II, Heather Demarest, Anirudh Prabhu, Jonathan I. Lunine, and Robert M. HazenOpen-ended versus bounded evolution: Mineral evolution as a case study
Robert M. Hazen and Michael L. WongLife as Aftermath: Social Theory for an Age of Anthropogenic BiologyHannah Landecker
Life after Kant: Natural purposes and the autopoietic foundations of biological individuality
Andreas Weber and Francisco J. VarelaUrge and Molecular Biology
Dr. Peter T. Mora, 1963Alterlife and Decolonial Chemical Relations
Michelle Murphy, 2017Semantic Information in a Model of Resource Gathering Agents
Damian R. Sowinski, Jonathan Carroll-Nellenback, Robert N. Markwick, Jordi Piñero, Marcelo Gleiser, Artemy Kolchinsky, Gourab Ghoshal, and Adam FrankDifference, Sameness and DNA (Chapters 1, 3, and 8)
Paul Vanouse, 2024Kincentric Ecology: Indigenous Perceptions of the Human-Nature Relationship
Enrique Salmón, 2010Seeing, Feeling, and Hearing the World. A Regenerative Worldview: Rinyi, Pirlirr and Liyan
Kankawa Nagarra [Olive] Knight, Anne Poelina, and Sandra Wooltorton, 2024Interdependence: Biology and Beyond
Kriti Sharma, 2015Why Psyche Matters: Psychological Implications of Santayana's Ontology
Jessica Wahman, 2006Beyond Emptiness – 'Compassion' as the Hidden Ground of Francisco Varela's Thinking
Andreas Weber, 2023Sustaining fecundity: artistic creation as care for life
Andreas Weber, 2023To unravel the origin of life, treat findings as pieces of a bigger puzzle
Nick Lane and Joana C. Xavier, 2024 -
Transforming emotional suffering into flourishing: meta therapeutic processing of positive affect as a trans-theoretical vehicle for change
Diana Fosha, Nathan Thoma & Danny YeungMetatherapeutic Processing Supports the Emergence of Flourishing in Psychotherapy
Diana Fosha, Nathan ThomaThe plasticity of well-being: A training-based framework for the cultivation of human flourishing
Cortland J. Dahla, Christine D. Wilson-Mendenhalla, and Richard J. DavidsonHumanity needs an ethical upgrade to keep up with new technologies
Marcelo GleiserI wonder as I wander
Marcelo GleiserThe choice we must face when our loved ones die
Marcelo GleiserThe Seamless Transformation of Emotional Suffering into Flourishing: Flourishing in AEDP Psychotherapy and Clinical Research
Diana Fosha, Ph.D., Shigeru Iwakabe, Ph.D. -
Covert consciousness: what's in a name?
Charlène Aubinet, Jan Claassen, Brian L. Edlow, David Fischer, Olivia Gosseries, Christof Koch, Daniel Kondziella, Marcello Massimini, and Michael J. YoungI have learned a lot about consciousness in these days.
Carlo RovelliOn the roles of function and selection in evolving systems
Michael L. Wongab, Carol E. Cleland, Daniel Arend Jr., Stuart Bartlett, H. James Cleaves, Heather Demarest, Anirudh Prabhua, Jonathan I. Lunine, and Robert M. HazenConsciousness or pseudo-consciousness? A clash oftwo paradigms
Giulio Tononi, Larissa Albantakis, Leonardo Barbosa, Melanie Boly, Chiara Cirelli, Renzo Comolatti, Francesco Ellia, Graham Findlay, Adenauer Girardi Casali, Matteo Grasso, Andrew M. Haun, Jeremiah Hendren, Erik Hoel, Christof Koch, lexander Maier, William Marshall, Marcello Massimini, William GP Mayner, Masafumi Oizumi, Joanna Szczotka, Naotsugu Tsuchiya & Alireza ZaeemzadehWhether There's a Multiverse or Not, Judaism Can Take It
Rabbi Geoffrey MitelmanGenesis Is Not A Science Textbook
Rabbi Geoffrey Mitelman
Podcast & Interviste
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Welcome to The Island of Knowledge
To the Best of Our Knowledge, April, 2025Why the human imagination is both our greatest gift and weapon[podcast interview]
Peter Tse, 2025Just how smart is a robot dog?[podcast interview]
Yuria Celidwen, Marcelo Gleiser, 2025How Galileo helped create the modern world[podcast interview]
Marcelo Gleiser, 2025The new science of 'planetary intelligence'[podcast interview]
Adam Frank, 2025 -
On Being Edible [podcast]
Andreas Weber, 2025Time, loss and the Big Bang [podcast]
Marcelo Gleiser, 2025 -
Island of Knowledge: Human Flourishing
To the Best of Our Knowledge, August, 2025Can we boost happiness on a city-wide scale? [podcast interview]
Richard Davidson, 2025How music becomes our collective medicine [podcast interview]
Dalal Abu Amneh, 2025Healing trauma takes time. Can we speed up psychotherapy? [podcast interview]
Diana Fosha, 2025 -
From Chaos to Order
Rabbi Geoffrey MitelmanGenesis and the Big Bang Cosmology
Rabbi Geoffrey MitelmanCosmic Mysteries and the Politics of Wonder
Carlo Rovelli
Life, the Universe, and All the Rest Podcast
