Media Library
IOK Leadership Retreat: Videos
Think Tanks: Essays & Articles
The Disencapsulated Mind: A Premotor Theory of Human Imagination
Peter Ulric Tse
The Evolution of Intelligence (keynote)
Peter Ulric Tse, 2024
Kin relationality and ecological belonging: a cultural psychology of Indigenous transcendence
Yuria Celidwen and Dacher Keltner
Ethical 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 Sacbajá
The case for expanding the definition of intelligence
Marcelo Gleiser, Big Think, 2025
Welcome to The Island of Knowledge
To the Best of Our Knowledge, April, 2025
A response to ‘Biological agency: a concept without a research program’
Philip Ball, 2024
How Life Really Works (article)
Philip Ball, 2023
We are not machines (article)
Philip Ball, 2024
Uncanny Ecologies – More-than-Natural, More-than-Human, More-than-Secular
Mayanthi Fernando, 2023
The Voyage of Life
Robert M. Hazen, 2025
Themes and Variations in Complex Systems
Robert M. Hazen and Niles Eldredge, 2010
Re-conceptualizing the origins of life
Sara I. Walker, N. Packard and G. D. Cody, 2025
On 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. Hazen
Open-ended versus bounded evolution: Mineral evolution as a case study
Robert M. Hazen and Michael L. Wong
Life as Aftermath: Social Theory for an Age of Anthropogenic Biology
Hannah Landecker
Life after Kant: Natural purposes and the autopoietic foundations of biological individuality
Andreas Weber and Francisco J. Varela
Urge and Molecular Biology
Dr. Peter T. Mora, 1963
Alterlife and Decolonial Chemical Relations
Michelle Murphy, 2017
Semantic 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 Frank
Difference, Sameness and DNA (Chapters 1, 3, and 8)
Paul Vanouse, 2024
Kincentric Ecology: Indigenous Perceptions of the Human-Nature Relationship
Enrique Salmón, 2010
Seeing, Feeling, and Hearing the World. A Regenerative Worldview: Rinyi, Pirlirr and Liyan
Kankawa Nagarra [Olive] Knight, Anne Poelina, and Sandra Wooltorton, 2024
Interdependence: Biology and Beyond
Kriti Sharma, 2015
Why Psyche Matters: Psychological Implications of Santayana's Ontology
Jessica Wahman, 2006
Beyond Emptiness – 'Compassion' as the Hidden Ground of Francisco Varela's Thinking
Andreas Weber, 2023
Sustaining fecundity: artistic creation as care for life
Andreas Weber, 2023
To unravel the origin of life, treat findings as pieces of a bigger puzzle
Nick Lane and Joana C. Xavier, 2024
Think Tanks: Podcasts & Interviews
Why the human imagination is both our greatest gift and weapon
with Peter Ulric Tse
Just how smart is a robot dog?
with Yuria Celidwen
How Galileo helped create the modern world
with Marcelo Gleiser
The new science of 'planetary intelligence'
with Adam Frank
Becoming edible
with Andreas Weber
Time, loss and the Big Bang
with Marcelo Gleiser
The Blind Spot Podcast
