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:

• navigating academic training in two disciplines, and how he bridges the different perspectives of neuroscience and anthropology;

• how being a research subject changed his view of subjective experience;

• intersubjectivity, and his work to bring together first- and third-person perspectives;

• research on fire-walking;

• meditation and microphenomenology;

• studying playfulness;

• predictive models of mind;

• the power of mindfulness to help with rumination;

• and the importance of exploring how two minds can process and respond differently to the same experience.

Full show notes and resources (podcast.mindandlife.org/andreas-roepstorff)