Thanks to my amazing co-authors Mushfiqa Monica Jamaluddin, Tom Froese, Embodied Cognitive Science Unit (ECSU), Aisha Belhadi, Anna Panagiotou and Dave Snowden. We will be following up with several official publications in the months ahead ...

Super excited by the release of this pre-print led by Mark M. James ! 🤩 Irruption theory explains why there is an intention-action gap, and why it will never fully go away. The wayshaping framework enables us to work with this gap, making us poised to exceed our intentions! 🙌

Our new wayshaping preprint – in which we offer an embodied, multiscale and phenomenological approach to individual behavior change – isn't yet discoverable on Google, but it can be accessed directly through this link - osf.io/preprints/psya…

Mark M. James Congrats on the preprint! From the twitter thread you linked, it looks very intriguing - gonna look at it more closely over the weekend!

‘The summit sings what is being spoken in the depths.’ Tristan Tzara

Why is it so hard to change behavior even when one has the right intention? We argue that this is because behavior change requires realignment across scales - both outside the individual and within the body!

In this international collaboration led by Mark M. James, we are developing“wayshaping” - a framework that is geared toward helping change happen! osf.io/preprints/psya…

Glad to see our previous visitor Rieko Osu is coming back to OIST for this workshop!

Why isn’t there a “coalition of the willing” to stop the mass starvation and genocide in Gaza?

I was supposed to post all of these as they came out, but often don't get to it until much later, so here are some pointers to content from the last year: List of various scientists’ talks given in the Allen Center recently: youtube.com/playlist?list=… List of select meetings with

Nice to see these creative resonances with the theoretical framework led by our team’s ⁦⁦Mark M. James⁩! "Wayshaping the Self: Rethinking Change Beyond the Behaviorist Horizon" linkedin.com/pulse/wayshapi…

"What's the craic?" With Anread Hoitt of the Love and Philosophy, I get into some conceptual analysis of the craic from the standpoint of embodied cognitive science. We also talk waymaking, wayshaping, habits and systems at multiple scales ... tinyurl.com/5btsja2d

New paper argues that lasting behavior change requires a "multiscale realignment" of embodied habits, environment, even our identity. #BehaviorChange #Cognition #CognitiveScience #Psychology #EmbodiedCognition #4ECognition Tom Froese, Embodied Cognitive Science Unit (ECSU) Mark M. James intellectica.org/en/4e-cognitio…

My #ALIFE2025 experience starts with the #TONAL2025 Thriving On Noise in Artificial Life satellite The organizers initially struggled with the echo noise of the room, quite appropriate for the session ALIFE Conference 2025