One of the speakers at The Organic and the Normative conference, taking place between July 30–August 1, 2024 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, is going to be Timotej Prosen.

Timotej Prosen is a PhD candidate at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, where he also works as a teaching assistant. He is working on a PhD thesis on the topic of affective experience, as conceived through the frameworks of enactivism and third-wave extended mind. His wider area of research includes process philosophy (primarily that of Whitehead, Simondon, and Deleuze), phenomenology (with a special interest in Merleau-Ponty) and non-representationalist or constructivist approaches in cognitive science (mainly enactivism).

Highlighted Article

Prosen T. (2023) Life-mind continuity beyond individual-centeredness: The issue of adaptivity. Constructivist Foundations 18(3): 367–370. https://constructivist.info/18/3/367

I raise the question of whether sympoietic systems, as construed in the target article, can be said to exhibit adaptivity. First, I give an overview of the role of adaptivity in the context of an enactivist conception of life-mind continuity. Subsequently, I reflect on a number of ways in which the notion of adaptivity may or may not be applied to sympoietic systems.