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:\nnavigating academic training in two disciplines, and how he bridges the different perspectives of neuroscience and anthropology;\nhow being a research subject changed his view of subjective experience;\nintersubjectivity, and his work to bring together first- and third-person perspectives;\nresearch on fire-walking;\nmeditation and microphenomenology;\nstudying playfulness;\npredictive models of mind;\nthe power of mindfulness to help with rumination;\nand the importance of exploring how two minds can process and respond differently to the same experience.\nFull show notes and resources