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New Event: I Congresso Latinoamericano de Ciências Afetivas, Belo Horizonte, Brazil (in person)
New Projects on the Extended Mind and Religion: Extended Mind and Personal Identity in Islamic Eschatology in collaboration with Dr. Mona Jahangiri (LMU Munich) – The paper explores the relationship between personal identity and bodily resurrection by integrating Avicenna’s philosophy with 4E cognition. It examines whether identity and memory can extend beyond the physical body and proposes a novel framework for understanding resurrection through the lens of both classical Islamic thought and modern cognitive science.
New Projects on the Extended Mind and Religion: External Memory Traces in Vajrayāna Buddhism – This project explores the Tibetan Buddhist belief that, at the moment of death, a person clings to their final memory and emotional state, which then persists in a disembodied form. These emotional residues are thought to linger in physical spaces, influencing others and giving rise to phenomena such as the "haunted home." The project investigates the philosophical implications of such emotional memory as a non-cognitive, external trace: one that exists without any neurological substrate.
New Award: Ruhr-Universität Bochum Travel Award for GEM 2025 – awarded for a paper discussing extended emotions as fueled by social media to create generalized anticipatory states of catastrophe with immediate political consequences, drawing on Brian Massumi’s concept of Ontopower and recent literature on collective Mental Time Travel