Addendums to Erik Hoel’s must-read predictions for 2050 — What’s the time-equivalent idiom for “your eyes are bigger than your stomach”? Whatever it was, mine were. So now that three PhD applications, and a journal paper, and a portfolio update are behind me, I’d return with part two of two of, ‘2050 is not far-off, after all.’ A quick…

Human consciousness, one that is not merely in the brain but is fully embodied, needs an external environment pregnant with meanings and emotions for its self-awareness. — Perez-Gomez, Alberto. Attunement. MIT Press. You’ve been considering getting one of those virtual reality headsets for a while now. At first, you thought…

Radical Embodied Cognition (REC) vs. Computationalist Cognition — The boundary-line of the mental is certainly vague. It is better not to be pedantic, but to let the science be as vague as its subject. - William James, 1890 The experience of neuroatypical individuals as users of products is not an edge case. Design for inclusivity is central to…

Addendums to Erik Hoel’s must-read predictions for 2050 — Last week, because the internet is brilliant, or more precisely because the team at Protein Journal does an incredible job curating their monthly newsletter, I happened across Hoel’s substack article “Futurists have their heads in the clouds.” So that you’re well and good up to speed, I would suggest popping…